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Transform Your Business into e: Going Beyond the Dot Com Disasters (E-Business Solutions)
Bennet P. Lientz , and Kathryn P. Rea Manufacturer: Academic Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0124499821 |
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Surveys indicate that many E-Business efforts either fail or disrupt the basic business processes and transactions. E-Business is sometimes not aligned with the business or IT. Vague vision statements are not translated into specific actions related to E- Business. It is because of these factors that Transform Your Business into e was written. The book covers E-Business from the review of the business at the start to expanding E-Business after it is live.
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People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
Robert Bolton Manufacturer: Touchstone ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 067162248X |
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A wall of silent resentment shuts you off from someone you love....You listen to an argument in which neither party seems to hear the other....Your mind drifts to other matters when people talk to you....People Skills is a communication-skills handbook that can help you eliminate these and other communication problems. Author Robert Bolton describes the twelve most common communication barriers, showing how these "roadblocks" damage relationships by increasing defensiveness, aggressiveness, or dependency. He explains how to acquire the ability to listen, assert yourself, resolve conflicts, and work out problems with others. These are skills that will help you communicate calmly, even in stressful emotionally charged situations.
People Skills will show you
* How to get your needs met using simple assertion techniques
* How body language often speaks louder than words
* How to use silence as a valuable communication tool
* How to de-escalate family disputes, lovers' quarrels, and other heated arguments
Both thought-provoking and practical, People Skills is filled with workable ideas that you can use to improve your communication in meaningful ways, every day.
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Great book...........2007-07-29
Great for Personal & Professional Communication Skills.......2007-05-18
People Skills:How to AsertYourself. Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicks.......2007-02-08
Wonderful Book.......2007-01-02
Useful insights, practical exercises........2006-08-06
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The 5 Essential People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
The Dale Carnegie Organization Manufacturer: Nightingale-Conant ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
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ASIN: 0743539850 |
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Have you ever walked away from a conversation full of doubts and insecurities? Do you feel as if you've lost a little ground after every staff meeting? Most of us are either too passive or too aggressive in our business life, and we end up never getting the support, recognition, or respect that we desire.The business leaders and trainers from Dale Carnegie Training® have discovered that applying appropriate assertiveness to all your interactions is the most effective approach to creating a successful career.
The 5 Essential People Skills will help you be the most positively assertive, prosperous and inspired professional you can be. You will learn to:
Relate to the seven major personality types
Live up to your fullest potential while achieving personal success
Create a cutting-edge business environment that delivers innovation and results
Use Carnegie's powerhouse Five-Part template for articulate communications that grow business
Resolve any conflict or misunderstanding by applying a handful of proven principles
Once you know and can employ these powerful skills, you will be well on your way to a new level of professional and personal achievement. You will see a transformation once you put these five essential skills to work for you.
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not helpful.......2007-05-30
Good, but basic.......2007-05-07
A must for all.......2007-01-04
AN ESSENTIAL LISTEN !.......2006-03-12
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People Skills: How to Assert Yourself, Listen to Others, and Resolve Conflicts
Robert Bolton Manufacturer: Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OITNTM |
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Confronting The Crime Of Silence: Evidence Of U.s. War Crimes In Indochina
Manufacturer: AK Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1904859216 |
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With this two-volume collection, Ward Churchill and Natsu Saito have assembled material from three of the most powerful documents of the Vietnam era: Bertrand Russell's International War Crimes Tribunal, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War's Winter Soldier Investigation, and the congressional records of the Dellums Committee Hearings on War Crimes in Vietnam. Fully annotated with extensive commentary by the editors, these documents blow away the "fog of war" surrounding US war crimes in Indochina. From "free fire zones" to defoliation campaigns, Jean-Paul Sartre to Green Berets, the testimonies they present paint a picture of wholesale criminality systematically orchestrated by US policy-makers and executed by its foot soldiers.
We are offered a chilling view of the moral and legal issues surrounding US military engagement. Examining the evidence of war crimes in Indochina, the International Tribunal testimonies include Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell, Gabriel Kolko, Tariq Ali, Dave Dellinger and assorted historians, scientists and journalists. From the Dellums Committee Hearings and the Winter Soldier Investigation, we hear from combat soldiers themselves as they recount the grisly realities of a genocidal war.
By confronting the silence, Churchill and Saito do justice not only to the victims of our indefensible crimes, but to all of us as we bear our moral responsibility to end today's wars of aggression.
Ward Churchill is chair of the Ethnic Studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, a winner of the Gustavus Myers Award for Literature on Human Rights and the author of more than 20 books.
Natsu Saito is a professor of international law at Georgia State University and a prolific writer and lecturer.
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Cosmic Catastrophes: Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Adventures in Hyperspace
J. Craig Wheeler Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521651956 |
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In this tour de force of the ultimate and extreme in astrophysics, renowned astrophysicist and author J. Craig Wheeler takes us on a breathtaking journey to supernovae, black holes, gamma-ray bursts and adventures in hyperspace. This is no far-fetched science fiction tale, but an enthusiastic exploration of ideas at the cutting edge of current astrophysics. Wheeler follows the tortuous life of a star from birth to evolution and death, and goes on to consider the complete collapse of a star into a black hole, worm-hole time machines, the possible birth of baby bubble universes, and the prospect of a revolutionary view of space and time in a ten-dimensional string theory. Along the way he offers evidence that suggests the Universe is accelerating and describes recent developments in understanding gamma-ray bursts--perhaps the most catastrophic cosmic events of all. With the use of lucid analogies, simple language and crystal-clear cartoons, Cosmic Catastrophes makes accessible some of the most exciting and mind-bending objects and ideas in the Universe. J. Craig Wheeler is currently Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin and Vice President of the American Astronomical Society as of 1999.Customer Reviews:
Excellent book.......2007-07-22
Cosmic catastrophies by J. Craig Wheeler.......2005-08-28
How stars work.......2001-02-26
The biggest explosions.......2000-10-06
Wheeler begins his book by describing how stars form, how they evolve in response to gravity, how they ignite, how they burn, and eventually how they die. This is a logical introduction, since virtually all the examples of cosmic catastrophes involve stars in one form or another. Like people, though, the life of each star is unique - and the end times are very different. Wheeler does an excellent job of describing the negative feedback process that stabilizes solar activity. If the star generates too much heat it expands. This expansion reduces the temperature, and throttles back on the rate of nuclear fusion. If the star cools down it contracts, and the contraction heats it up again, keeping the rate of fusion at a remarkably constant level for long periods of time during the stars life.
Much of Wheeler's text is actually about how stars evolve. This is important because to understand their deaths, you need to understand how they are born and how they evolve over their lifetimes. Their deaths are frequently the most interesting parts of the story because they are often involved with the catastrophes that are the book's principal thesis. While I bought the book because of its discussion about cosmic catastrophes, I found it valuable for its descriptions of stellar evolution alone. This includes a nice description of the "solar-neutrino" problem as well as a nice explanation of the red-giant phase, and especially the last stages during the life of a massive star that explodes in a super nova.
The foundational understanding of the basics of stellar evolution makes it easier to follower Wheeler as he takes the reader on a tour of the major players in cosmic catastrophes: white dwarfs, super novae (of many different types), neutron stars, black holes, and gamma-ray bursts. Wheeler's descriptions of these phenomena (to the extent that modern science understands them) are among the best I've seen in a popular science textbook. There is also a smattering of discussion about the origin of the universe in the Big Bang, and some interesting speculation about time (and space) travel using black holes.
In any book dealing with modern cosmology and astronomy there are inevitable discussions about the nature of space and time and how they fit together with Einstein's theory of general relativity. Most such books have at least one figure showing a funnel-shaped construct with grid lines converging as they swoop into the tapering end where the black hole resides. Wheeler uses lots of such diagrams. However, I think he does a better job than most at helping the reader understand what the diagrams illustrate. More importantly, he helps the reader understand what the diagrams do not illustrate, and their limitations (he dispels some common misperceptions about these sorts of figures). I especially enjoyed Wheeler's explanations about how one might (with the application of the appropriate mental acrobatics) use the diagrams to actually envision what is really going on in our multi-dimensional world.
Another thing I liked about Wheeler's book is the clear and frequent illustrations. For the most part the author has anticipated those places where prose just cannot quite complete the mental picture. When this happens there is inevitably a well-constructed diagram that finishes the concept and makes things clear. There was one exception, however. Figure 7.3 really needs to have an arrow or circle marking the location of SN 1987A. [I'm pretty sure I found it, but the exposure changes between the photographs, and so I'm not quite sure. It would have been nice to have the author's help in preventing a false identification.]
Reading this book one gets the sense that even though it is a qualitative description of astronomy (there are no equations) Wheeler is not over simplifying. His discussion of super novae, for example, lists many classes and describes theoretical uncertainties that other authors gloss over or ignore all together. Of course there is much more detail to super novae than what is in Wheeler's book. But at the qualitative level Wheeler leaves the reader understanding that there are many classifications of super novae, that some of the boundaries between classifications are not always so clear cut, and that we still don't know a lot about how some types form, and how other types explode. These are concepts that other popular science textbooks don't always convey. I think the only thing missing from the chapters on super novae is a table that summarizes all the different types and some of their descriptive identifiers.
Unlike some popular science texts, Wheeler devotes quite a bit of time describing the evolution of binary stars, which play an important role in some of the greatest cosmic catastrophes. I think he does an especially good job of qualitatively describing accretion disks, and how they fit in the context of mass transfer in binary systems. It's this mass transfer that is ultimately involved in some of the most spectacular catastrophes in the sky.
Overall, this is a great book. If you enjoy astronomy I'm sure you will find it satisfying and informative. It's just the sort of book to enjoy on a vacation, or after a grueling day at the office.
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Exotica of Stars.(Review): An article from: American Scientist
Angela V. Olinto Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008J1FM0 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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Atlas of Surface Structures 1a & 1B
P. R. Watson Manufacturer: AIP Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1563964139 |
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span (paper)
Kathleen Stassen Berger Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716791595 |
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Book review.......2007-09-28
Decent, but had a lot of fluff.......2007-08-29
Packed with usefull information.......2007-02-18
Berger: Developing person through the life span.......2007-02-16
Excellent.......2006-11-07
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span Study Guide
Richard O. Straub Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716703157 |
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Study Guide Very helpful for test study!.......2006-03-01
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span, 6th Edition (Cram101 Textbook Outlines - Textbook NOT Included)
Manufacturer: AIPI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1428802053 |
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Never Highlight a Book Again! Cram101 Textbook Outlines give the student all of the highlights, notes, and practice-tests for their textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific, not generic.Customer Reviews:
mediocre!.......2007-09-20
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span & Exploring Human Development Student Media Tool Kit
Kathleen Stassen Berger Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716799316 |
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Nursing Textbook.......2007-01-07
Awesome.......2005-09-21
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span 6e Paper & Study Guide
Kathleen Stassen Berger , and Richard O. Straub Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716799332 |
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Telecourse Student Guide for The Developing Person Through the Life Span, 5e
Coast Learning Systems , and Kathleen Stassen Berger Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716755548 |
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Telecourse student guide to accompany the book Developing the Person : Transitions Throughout the Life Span by Kathleeen Stassen Berger. The telecourse is produced by Coast Communitiy College System in cooperation with Worth Publishers & KOCE-TV Channel 50. Distributed by Coast Learning Systems.
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Study guide to accompany The developing person through the life span: [by] Kathleen Stassen Berger
Rob Fry Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00070SQY0 |
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Exploring Human Development: A Student Media Tool Kit: to Accompany The Developing Person Through the Life Span
Lisa Huffman , Thomas Ludwig , Tanya Renner , Catherine Robertson , and Stavros Valenti Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: CD-ROM Similar Items: ASIN: 0716706407 |
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span, Student Media Tool Kit, Journey Through the Life Span (DVD) & Student Observation Workbook
Kathleen Stassen Berger Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0716745402 |
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The Developing Person Through the Life Span & Study Guide
Kathleen Stassen Berger Manufacturer: Worth Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0716752433 |
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Practical Spectroscopy of High-Frequency Discharges (Physics of Atoms and Molecules)
S.A. Kazantsev , Vyacheslav I. Khutorshchikov , Günter H. Guthöhrlein , and Laurentius Windholz Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0306456761 |
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A uniquely practical book, this monograph is the first to describe basic and applied spectroscopic techniques for the study of physical processes in high frequency, electrodeless discharge lamps. Special attention is given to the construction and optimization of these lamps, a popular source of line spectra and an important tool in ultraprecise optical engineering. Highlights include discussions of:
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Quantum Radio Frequency Physics
L. D. Stepin Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0262190168 |
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Of Sinners and Liberals: Christ's Life in a Liberal World
Rickard DeMille Manufacturer: Writers Club Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 059509645X |
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How would Christ have been received in a liberal world? How would todays rules and regulations changed reactions to his life? This is a humerous look at how liberalism would have dealt with Christ and His teachings. It is presented to us through the eyes of Joe C. Fuss, a reporter in Jerusalem. We also find comments from national radio celebrities Rush Limbaugh and Mark Davis. This is truly a unique look at liberalism and its results.Books:
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