Being a manager can be an intimidating and challenging task. Managing involves teaching new skills to employees, helping land a new customer, accomplishing an important assignment, increasing performance, and much more. The process of management can be very challenging at times, but it can also bring you a sense of fulfillment that you never ...
Lively writing and beautiful full-color photographs provide a brief history of treehouses from the time of Rome's Caligula to Queen Victoria. The stories of dozens of treehouses and their builders parallel how-to instructions and a photo-essay centerpiece of the author's 200 sq.ft. octagonal treehouse in Canada.
'Refreshingly irreverent and lucidly written...go for it whether you're a wannabe or an old pro!' - James H. Kennedy, Founder, Consultant News, on the first edition of "Consulting For Dummies". 'Whether you are a novice consultant or a pro, "Consulting For Dummies" coaches you to outstanding success. It is crammed with practical, proven tips and ...
Detailed how-to information, such as step-by-step building sequences, plans, and drawings, as well as information on tools and materials, supplement the behind-the-scenes tales of treehouses. From casual tree shacks to multitiered flights of fancy, these magnificent structures can appeal to anyone appreciating this ever-evolving art form. Photos.
This text combines theory and applications with the mathematical principles necessary to solve a wide range of circuit problems. The coverage of the mathematical topics reflects current trends, with a chapter devoted to Karnaugh mapping to help students cope with the greater complexity of modern digital circuit devices. The book is illustrated ...
Peter Nelson, the nation's foremost authority on treehouses, and writer Gerry Hadden join forces to tell readers everything they need to know about designing and building the treehouse that's right for every individual or family. Step-by-step instructions for a children's playhouse, a vacation home, an office, and a full-time residence are ...
The night broke open in a storm of explosions and fire. The sound of shells whizzing overhead, screeching through the night like wounded pheasants, was terrifying. When the shells exploded prematurely overhead, a rain of shrapnel fell on the men below-better than when the shells exploded in the trenches...In A More Unbending Battle, journalist ...
Herbert and Alex, along with their mutual crush, Sammi, travel back and forthvia a virtual wormhole, in this smart-alecky, inventive, wry, and very visualcreation featuring short chapters and pictures on every page. 5 1/2 x8 1/4.
Leading Baptist and evangelical thinkers examine eight key Christian doctrines, shaping a church theology that is both biblically sound and relevant today.
Men and women from all walks of life with all manner of experience and expectations have reasons for becoming independent consultants. Some are leveraging their knowledge to help their clients, and others are simply tired of working for someone else. Still others are looking for a way to make some extra money. The new model for modern-day business ...
FOREWORD BY NELSON MANDELA: Johns and Godwin photographed and interviewed Nelson Mandela during the summer of 2000. Mandela, in a remarkable tribute to their unique work, will contribute a Foreword to this book. UNPRECEDENTED PHOTOGRAPHS: Chris Johns spent six years recording Africa's spellbinding wildlife, and diverse peoples. His rare talent and ...
Gaining the right managerial skills will help launch a career in a field that is in high demand and short supply. With this book, readers will acquire the knowledge and tools to manage employees as well as to deal with the increasingly complex changes that occur in the business world. One of the important areas covered is how to handle office ...
The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) introduced a criterion starting with their 1992-1993 site visits that "Students must demonstrate a knowledge of the application of statistics to engineering problems." Since most engineering curricula are filled with requirements in their own discipline, they generally do not have time ...
"The Management Bible" is the most comprehensive book on the topic of management available anywhere. It offers in-depth coverage of the entire range of essential topics for today's managers and supervisors - from beginners to seasoned veterans - and includes practical, effective solutions for the everyday problems every manager faces. In addition, ...
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in ...
Exploring the concept of region in America, this study calls into question widely held notions about how Americans came to differ from one another, and explains why those differences continue to flourish. The concept of region, and the changes it has undergone, is examined, as is its meaning for Americans today. The authors conclude that regional ...
Imagine jumping out of an aeroplane at 40,000 feet, accelerating to reach terminal velocity at 127 mph, then deploying your parachute at 1000 feet in order to minimise your vulnerability to ground fire. Imagine jumping from 800 feet and having an instant to pull the release. Or climbing down a mountain in a blizzard with someone strapped to your ...
Here are the most effective techniques for obtaining high-quality decisions in a timely manner from any team or group. With forms, checklists and examples that help readers prepare for and lead meetings, this hands-on guide shows how to: ensure that everyone plays a part in the meeting; avoid mistakes and promote opportunities for input; come to ...
In recent years, superstring theory has emerged as a promising approach to reconciling general relativity with quantum mechanics and unifying the fundamental interactions. Problems that have seemed insuperable in previous approaches take on a totally new character in the context of superstring theory, and some of them have been overcome. Interest ...
The result of ten years' detailed research, this is a complete and detailed system of trauma methods which the non-specialist general duty doctor can use to treat all human injuries that might benefit from his care. It is designed mainly for medical schools and hospitals in the developing world, but any doctor who is not a trauma specialist will ...
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in ...
Offering the perspectives of some of the most respected thinkers in transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies, this book explores the farther reaches of knowing, both ourselves and the world, described here as transpersonal, post-conventional, or spiritual. The contributors' work is presented from their own authentic knowing, whether ...
String Theory comprises two volumes which give a comprehensive and pedagogic account of the subject. Volume 1 provides a thorough introduction to the bosonic string. The first four chapters introduce the central ideas of string theory, the tools of conformal field theory and of the Polyakov path integral, and the covariant quantization of the ...
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