Eliminate negative verbal and nonverbal behaviors and replace them with positive signals that improve the entire organization. 'No one argues the importance of the small scale better than Stephen Young! [who] calls these make-or-break communications micromessages'- "O Magazine". In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Young, one of the foremost ...
Headache is the most common complaint for which people see neurologists and the seventh most common reason they visit their primary care doctors. It is the third most common cause of missed work, and can seriously undermine the quality of life if not effectively managed. Migraine and Other Headaches is the essential guide for everyone who suffers ...
Over the 80 years of Poetry magazine's existence, it has published the work of--among others--such important poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Ashbery, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich. Here is a selection from those poets and many more by the magazine's present editor, Joseph Parisi.
Author Stephen Young was a seaman first class assigned to gunnery duty in turret no. 4 on the Oklahoma when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Struck by a bomb, the battleship started to sink, and Young and others became trapped when it overturned. Young describes their terrifying experience with stunning clarity. He recounts the violence of the ...
Publishing monthly without interruption, "Poetry" has become America's most distinguished magazine of verse, presenting, often for the very first time, virtually every notable poet of the last nine decades--an unprecedented record.
This book provides a special interest theory of protection, developing a full general equilibrium theory that explains the distribution of income with goods markets, factor markets, lobbies, political parties, and voters all pursuing their self interest. This probabilistic voting model shows how well-organized groups can use seemingly irrational ...
During the century after its publication in 1742, 'Night Thoughts' was one of the most popular, widely read and influential poems in the English language. However, there have been no editions of the poem since the middle of the nineteenth century. This edition contains a critical introduction setting the poem in the context of the eighteenth ...
Portfolio Nine contains all the winning and commended images from the 1999 British Gas Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, organized by BBC Wildlife Magazine and The Natural History Museum, London. This book shows the best wildlife pictures taken by photographers worldwide.
This comprehensive manual serves as a source of basic and clinical information for the physician regarding viruses and viral diseases and as a reference source for laboratorians to aid in the diagnosis of virus infection by providing detailed information on individual techniques. Section one of the manual describes laboratory procedures to detect ...
Contains plenary papers, summaries of workshop symposia, and selected extended abstracts from over 300 contributors to the Fourth International Conference on Macrolides, Azalides, Streptogramins, and Ketolides (MASK) recently held in Barcelona, Spain. This compendium traces the progress in research and development of MASK antibiotics, identifying ...
Continuing the saga begun in Dear Editor, the former editor and senior editor of Poetry magazine tell the story of the last half-century of the magazine's leadership in the publication of American poetry through correspondence with a myriad of poets. An enlightening, amusing, and revealing book.
Poetry magazine is one of the most prestigious publications in the U.S., and is devoted solely to publishing American verse. During its 80-year history, it has featured such poets as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stephens. This collection of letters to its founder, Harriet Monroe, includes many from the poets themselves. The editors have ...
Ernst & Young experts provide essential information on how the going public procedure works including what it means to become a public company, who should be involved in the process, underwriting your offering, the registration procedure and alternative sources of financing. Explains, in plain English, all SEC rules and regulations for taking an ...
The multinational enterprise has been one of the foremost economic, political, and social influences in the world economy for many decades. As its role and influence have grown, so has the regime of institutions and rules concerning international investment-from the proposal to create the ITO in the 1940s to the establishment of the WTO in the ...
All physicians need to learn to diagnose and manage head pain. However, there are many causes of headache: some are secondary to other conditions; others are disorders in themselves. These factors often make differential diagnosis and treatment a challenge. This didactic atlas approaches the problem of migraine and other headaches from a visual ...
This is a handbook to the Caux Roundtable's code of corporate ethics; this code has received attention in many countries around the world. It shows readers how to manage market capitalism and globalization for economic and social justice and fairness and how to improve outcomes for people and societies from market capitalism and globalization. The ...
The concept of sustainable development was popularised by the 1987 Brundtland Report and became a central theme in the EU's Fifth Environmental Action Programme. It dominated the Rio Earth Summit and its promotion has been much in evidence in the subsequent follow-up to Rio. The Politics of Sustainable Development analyses how the theory of ...
This book provides real-world guidelines for implementing EVA. Today's most comprehensive and unbiased evaluation of Value-Based Management and EVA Economic Value Added (EVA) and Value Based Management (VBM), despite persistent claims to the contrary, are not magic wands, guaranteeing instant success. Instead, they are a set of management tools - ...
In an era in which our conception of what constitutes a "normal" family has undergone remarkable changes, questions have arisen regarding the role of the state in "normalizing" families through public policy. In what ways should the law seek to facilitate, or oppose, parenting and child-rearing practices that depart from the "nuclear family" with ...
This book takes a new approach to teaching and learning early US history from 1763 to 2000 at A level. It meets the needs of teachers and students studying for today's revised AS and A2 exams. In a unique style, The United States, 1763-2000 focuses on the key topics within the period. Each topic is then comprehensively explored to provide ...
"Diseases of the Oral Mucosa and the Lips" is a clinically oriented text and atlas covering the symptoms and diseases of the oral mucosa and perioral skin. The essential aspects of each illness are organized by concentrating on the clinical features that are important in the differential diagnosis. The chapter on anatomical conditions and ...
Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies is a collection of new essays by recognised experts from around the world on various aspects of the new discipline of Latin American cultural studies. Essays are grouped in five distinct but interconnected sections focusing respectively on: (I) the theory of Latin American cultural studies; (II) the ...
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