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This book looks at the pillars of success of high-performing companies, and how they perform in areas such as innovativeness, market orientation, core competencies and leadership and entrepreneurship culture. Many examples from a wide variety of industries and interviews with top managers give insights into the secrets of success of top performers.

Designed for students undertaking their first systematic study of the Hebrew Bible, this text has two goals: to acquaint readers with the content and major themes of the biblical documents, and to introduce them to issues in biblical scholarship. Pedagogically rich and reader-friendly, this text was designed for conventional introductory courses using historical-critical methodology, and will also be useful in courses studying the Bible as lit...

Whether you?re involved in marketing and sales, employed in business, government, or an association, on the front line with customers, heading up a department, entire organization or any other area of influence, the ability to effectively connect to the needs of others dramatically impacts profitability, productivity, motivation and more. Get Along with Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere is your ?one stop? guide to finding all the information you need ...

Dibbell offers an original look at a cutting-edge subject: online fantasy games with hundreds of thousands of players, and how their enthusiasts pay real-world money for fantasy goods.

Muhammad Ali is one of the worlds best-known figures, and this incredible biography delves into precisely why. Boldens careful research and elegant telling, paired with Christies incredible paintings, make this a book that will inform and inspire readers of all ages. Full color.

Here, Shelley Green and Douglas Flemons gather a wonderful array of approaches to sex therapy, each presented by a well-known therapist in the field. Quickies takes its cue from clients and keeps it positive and quick, as readers are reminded that the point of sex therapy is sexual change.

You can tell what really makes Simone different just by looking at her: she doesn't resemble anyone in her family. She's adopted. She's always known it, but she's never wanted to know anything about where she came from. She's happy with her family just as it is, thank you. Then one day, Rivka calls, and Simone learns who her mother was-a 16-year-old, just like Simone. Who is Rivka? What does she want? Why is she calling now, after all these ye...

Claire Harris slices through the boundaries of poetry and prose in this powerful volume, offering a window into the experiences of friendship, love, pregnancy, and motherhood. Spanning a few days and several decades, Drawing Down a Daughter follows a woman-dreamer as she prepares to give birth to a daughter. As she waits for her husband, she talks to her child through dreams, journals, letters, and stories. These musings, both poetic and laden...

In A Barefoot Doctor's Guide for Women, Georgette Delvaux, DC, focuses on hormonal health explaining in a conversational tone how issues related to menstruation, pre-menopause, and menopause can begin as mere annoyances and gradually develop into major problems that affect both body and mind. She describes the harmful late effects of treating hormonal imbalances with artificial hormones—a popular practice—and introduces Thermography, the excit...

Advances in Chemical Physics is the only series of references available that explores the cutting edge of research in chemical physics. This series provides the chemical physics field with a forum for critical, authoritative evaluations of advances in every area of the discipline.

First implemented in 1962, the American embargo against Cuba is one of the most enduring anti-trade agreements in human history, having outlived most of the original government and military leaders responsible for its creation. This unique work draws upon interviews with Cuban exiles to provide an extensive look at the embargos effects on the Cuban people, and an evaluation of its diminishing role as an effective political tool.

This book gives readers the tools they need to achieve work design that is ergonomically effective while remaining economically feasible. Whether studying work design/ergonomics in a college classroom, preparing for the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) exam, or working as a professional in the field, readers can depend on this book to provide them with the information they need. Work Design is a single source for ergono...

In this important new work, two respected criminologists challenge the characterization of the new 'bad girl' arguing that it is only a new attempt to punish girls who are not the stereotypical depiction of good. Through interviews with young women, educators and people in the criminal justice system, Beyond Bad Girls exposes the formal and informal systems of socio-cultural control imposed on girls.

Dieser Band bietet neue Erkenntnisse zum Wesen von Fachtextsortenkonventionen und der durch sie repräsentierten pragmatischen Kulturdifferenz in der interkulturellen technischen Kommunikation. Das Lehrbuch enthält u. a. Analyseergebnisse zu 12 Korpora fachinterner und -externer Anleitungen aus Maschinen- und Gerätebau (D/R/E). Es stellt der Übersetzungsdidaktik ein praxisorientiertes Instrumentarium zur Verfügung, um die theoretisch postuliert...

The business world is dominated by family businesses of all sizes. Economies and societies depend on them. One tremendous advantage is that they focus on sustainability, long-term business and community support, and survival. Answering the question of how they survive intact and how families can maintain family unity over hundreds of years is essential. To answer this question, interviews with seven multi-century, large multigenerational famil...

Der Sammelband enthält Beiträge der 19. Sprechwissenschaftlichen Fachtagung «100 Jahre Fachgeschichte an der Universität Halle», die am 9. und 10. Juni 2006 in Halle stattfand. Diese Tagung war Anlass, den geschichtlichen Werdegang und den gegenwärtigen Stand der Sprechwissenschaft/Sprecherziehung zu reflektieren. Außerdem wurden zukünftige Entwicklungen sprechwissenschaftlich-sprecherzieherischer Forschung und Lehre diskutiert. Die wissenscha...

Receiving the yearly birthday gift from his grandmother has become David's living nightmare. The "surprise” she always has for him never varies. How can he stop this never-ending flow of stiff, white, scratchy shirts — "perfect gentlemen” shirts that make him squirm and pull and shift and twitch? David closes his eyes and imagines a long line of shirts — one for every year of his life — stretching on forever. Then suddenly, without really inte...

First times” can be life-changing experiences. Marthe Jocelyn has selected fourteen unforgettable stories, written by several of the best authors in North America, which explore human nature and take the reader on a transforming journey. From innocent firsts, such as first blue jeans, first boyfriend, first job, first step into adulthood, to the more complex first disillusionment, first inappropriate love, first family breakup, first breach of...

Wonderful sex does more than melt both body and soul, it brings power, energy, and deep satisfaction to all aspects of our lives. In this unique book, women who consider themselves highly sexually responsive talk in intimate detail about what gives them the greatest pleasure. They redefine sex based on how women really experience sexual pleasure confirming what every woman knows instinctively, while creating a new language that every woman wil...

Exceptional NCAA coach and ESPN college football analyst Gottfried gives insights into his life on and off the field as he shares his inspiring tale about rising above hard circumstances and achieving great goals.