Most people, at some time in their professional lives, find themselves faced with the prospect of making a presentation to a live audience. This practical handbook discusses how to deliver powerful presentations. It covers how to: build rapport with the audience; create a striking and a lasting impression; structure and deliver the presentation; ...
Taking care of an ageing parent can be a bewildering and frustrating process, especially as health problems progress. This is the story of two adult daughters managing the challenging reversal of roles as they nurse their elderly father through a terminal illness. The frustrations of handling both a stubborn and temperamental parent and an often ...
A comprehensive reference handbook on growing, maintaining, propagating, breeding and showing roses. It provides guidance on species of roses, old varieties, modern shrub roses, bush roses, hybrid teas, floribundas, climbers, ramblers, miniatures, patio and ground cover roses and standards.
Aimed at those involved in business outside of their own country, this guide examines culture and its effects on working behaviour before reviewing ways of developing communication skills that bridge cultural divisions.
Reinforced concrete structures are subjected to a complex variety of stresses and strains. The four basic actions are bending, axial load, shear, and torsion. Presently, there is no single comprehensive theory for reinforced concrete structural behavior that addresses all of these basic actions and their interactions. Furthermore, there is little ...
The increasingly global nature of business means that businesspeople have access to a wider marketplace as they deal with clients or customers abroad. This is a practical handbook for those who regularly deal with other cultures in their day-to-day work. Offering exercises, checklists, examples, opinions and case studies, it covers the essential ...
Global business is more than a vision of the future; it is a present reality for hundreds of thousands of managers from enterprises great and small. If you are one of them, and travel on business, you know that cross-cultural dealings make great demands on our interpersonal skills. The territory is strange and local habits perplexing. You know ...
Mattock takes a poignant look at how lives change when a loved one leaves without a trace. Portraying the challenges of homelessness and survival from the inside out, this moving story is intricately woven around the intriguing lives of people coping with tragedy and heartbreaking losses.
This gardening series is written for amateurs by master gardeners with clear, expert advice, boxed features and time-saving tips. This volume in the series looks at how to grow all types of roses successfully, for exhibitions or simply for pleasure.
This book focuses on roses that are particularly suited to small gardens, those that are more compact or less rampant in habit, those that are repeat flowering and that offer interest even when not flowering. It also includes advice on how and where to plant and what to grow with roses.
Business is becoming increasingly global in scale, and this trend will increase throughout the 1990s, both with the advent of the Single Market, and the further internationalization of world markets generally. The cross-cultural business dealings which this phenomenon necessitates call for a high level of communication skills, and managers are ...
A handbook on giving presentations. It contains advice on how to: build rapport with the audience; create a striking and lasting impression; structure and deliver an argument; adapt presentations for various cultures; and employ visual aids and props.
This identification guide contains information on all 120 species of rose. It covers all types of rose from wild roses and old garden roses to modern shrub roses, hybrid tea roses and climbers and ramblers. The introduction contains general information on the care and cultivation of roses. In the directory, which is divided into the different rose ...
Lessons learned from Pittsburgh's bold but troubled Early Childhood Initiative The Early Childhood Initiative (ECI), an ambitious effort launched in Pittsburgh in 1996 to provide high-quality early care and education services to at-risk children, failed to achieve its goals, although participating children may have derived substantial benefits ...
CRANFORD is a novel in the form of 16 tales set in an English village inhabited mostly by single women and widows, whose remote, powerless lives are portrayed with a combination of satire, amusement, and sympathy. Elizabeth Gaskell's fourth novel reveals her to be a master storyteller with a lively eye for the eccentric, but it also has a ...
JUDE THE OBSCURE is perhaps the most vivid illustration of Hardy's belief that our lives are governed by dark and malevolent forces. Jude Fawley is torn between his sensual nature and his equally strong lust for learning, two sides of his character that are personified by the two women in his life--the earthy Arabella and the intellectual Sue ...
Greater use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) marks a U.S. transition toward a "digital society" that may profoundly affect electricity supply, demand, and delivery. RAND developed four 2001-2021 scenarios of ICT evolution and assessed their implications for U.S. electricity requirements. Even large deployment of ICTs will only ...
This guide opens up the real Russia and gets to the essence of Russian life, culture, society. In an engaging and entertaining style, John Mattock takes the reader on a business trip to Russia with an imaginary Westerner where he meets a Russian counterpart, Yevgenii. The guide takes the reader from preparation, through the journey, into the ...
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Roses: From the Archives of the Royal Horticultural Society
