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Working Wisdom : Capturing Employee Insights Through Focus Group Research
Kim Gavagan , Joe DeLuccia , and Alison Davis
Manufacturer: Davis & Company
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Binding: Ring-bound

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ASIN: 0971306109

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This 92-page guidebook helps professionals use the focus group experience to uncover the attitudes behind employees' viewpoints and turn this information into effective programs that help the company achieve its goals.

Working Wisdom is written specifically for professionals in internal communications, human resources, training, corporate communications, organizational development, and change management.

The guidebook spells out the steps for leading employee focus groups. It contains examples, case studies, practical tips, and learning exercises.

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Excellent guide.......2006-06-13

This guide is good for the newcomers and offers insights for people who have been doing focus group research for years.

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This book contains the expanded lecture notes of the 32nd Saas-Fee Advanced Course. This well respected school offers courses appropriate for students as well as professional astronomers. The three contributions, by A. Blain, F. Combes and B. Draine, present the central themes in modern research on the cold universe. The cold state plays a crucial role in the evolution of the universe. The authors cover topics such as cold objects at large distances, the origin of galaxies, the role of molecules in galaxies, and the physics of dust in cold clouds. In addition, much space is given to the observation techniques in the regime near background radiation temperature.

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Optically active compounds are gaining ever-increasing importance in organic chemistry, both in the academic and the industrial arenas. The rational synthesis of the growing number of chiral chemicals, drugs, and natural products demands efficient methods for producing these compounds in an enantiomerically, highly pure form. Despite the available alternative techniques, optical resolution via Diastereomeric salt formation remains the most widely used method of preparing pure enantiomers. The CRC Handbook of Optical Resolutions Via Diastereomeric Salt Formation is the first book to exclusively address this important organic chemical process. It provides fast, one-stop access to a wealth of information, including all of the available data on 100 resolving agents, a list of 500 optically active compounds available in bulk along with their suppliers, data on more than 3,500 resolutions, and 4,200 citations. This handbook helps answer virtually any question that may arise during the development of a new resolution process. Which resolving agent and solvent should I use under these conditions? How can I separate the diastereoisomers? How can I optimize a resolution process? How do I determine enantiomeric purity? Which supplier has the resolving agent I need? For a racemate already resolved, what were the resolving agent, solvent, and relevant citation? This is the first book to deal exclusively with all aspects of this important organic chemical process, both theoretical and practical. With an abundance of analyzed examples, this single, authoritative reference provides all of the information you need to perform, develop, and optimize optical resolutions via Diastereomeric salt formation

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Evolutionary computation is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, partly because of its broad applicability to engineering problems. The methods can be applied to problems as diverse as supply-chain optimization, routing and planning, task assignment, pharmaceutical design, interactive gaming, and many others within the signal processing domain. The book is an outgrowth of successful SPIE short courses taught by the author. The examples span a range of applications and should be useful to a variety of readers with different backgrounds and expertise.

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Unique contribution for signal processing.......2000-10-16

The book is excellent. It provides a comprehensive description of evolutionary computation applied to almost every facet of signal processing: classification, clustering, time series, system identification, etc. The final chapter provides some real insight on how to design evolutionary algorithms that is very helpful. The material is well presented and easy to understand. I really like it and the cost is reasonable.

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These ruminations, assembled in the form of a journal and here published in paperback for the first time, were written at Alan Watts' retreat in the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, California. Many current themes are discussed, including meditation, nature, established religion, race relations, karma and reincarnation, astrology and tantric yoga, and the nature of ecstasy, but the underlying motif is the art of feeling out and following the watercourse way of nature, known in Chinese as the Tao. Watts suggests a way of contemplative meditation in which we temporarily stop naming and classifying all that we experience, and simply feel it as it is.

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Writing about the Unknowable.......2004-10-20

It's a little hard to write about something that can't be written about, but Watts gives it his best shot, and he seems to pull it off.

He writes, for example, "Yet the intention of the guru himself is simply to exhaust the energy of the illusion by bringing his disciples again and again to experiences of the absurdity of trying to transform mind with mind."

Watts, as his readers know, started as an Anglican (Episcopalian) priest, and then studied at a Zen monastery in Kyoto, Japan. His metamorphosis is evident in these writings (he died in 1973, right after this book was published).

Watts has little sympathy for the established Christian churches and instead finds sustenance in Zen, Taoism, and Hinduism.

Personally, I found sustenance in his writings here. He doesn't give a whole lot of what we might call "practical" advice, except to meditate, but that's the point of his teachings: "So long, then, as we are concerned with powers, we are still aiming at increased control of nature and aggravating our frustrations." The "Western" efforts to control nature, Watts feels, are self-defeating.

"You, as ego, cannot change what you are feeling, and you cannot, effectively, try not to change it."

You may get the dichotomous drift of what he is saying in these few quotations. When you read the book, you'll get much more. Like other books with a spiritual theme, but moreso, this book will fulfill and feed your spirit. Diximus.

rebel with a cause.......2002-10-21

Timeless wisdom wrapped in beautiful language that soothes the soul. Alan Watts was a brilliant storyteller who managed to stir things up a bit before leaving on an optimistic note.

This work is edgier than his others and will satisfy the more rebellious new agers.

just marvelous.......1998-12-27

This is perhaps the best of the half dozen or so Watts books I've read. Watts is a brilliant philosopher of the "Big Picture", and it is all wonderfully laid out here: Cosmic consciousness, Tantric Buddhism, the Hippies, Tao... he nails them all in splendid fashion. Highly recommendable.

A concise summary of Watts' enlightening lectures........1998-08-24

Unlike "The Book", one of my favorite books of Watts, "Cloud-Hidden..." is a collection of short essays that can be digested in a brief sitting. Some of these essays are direct transcriptions of his lectures. Yet, I find myself returning to this book quite often for a quick "Watts fix".

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Sweet Revenge
This should be required reading
Best short story ever written and still relevant
Chilling Story of Nazis and Revenge
Must read classic!

Address Unknown
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743412710
Release Date: 2001-04-03

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A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 --

and now an international bestseller.

Address

Unknown

When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe.

A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San

Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and enduring impact.

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Sweet Revenge.......2007-07-14

This is a surprisingly brief but very effective drama of the time before
World War II. There is a close business partnership and friendship between
two Germans in the US, one of whom is Jewish. The non-Jew returns to
Hitler's Germany and is soon converted to Nazi-ism. What follows is high drama depicted in correspondence between the two friends. There is ultimately sweet revenge for the German who remained in the US.

This should be required reading.......2007-04-06

Sixty years later, apologists for the slow American response to the holocaust say that, gee, we just had no idea until the camps were liberated at the end of the war. Not so. In 1938, Katherine Kressman Taylor published the short story ADDRESS UNKNOWN in Story Magazine. Its popularity inspired a stand alone hardcover release the following year. The critics could not say enough. They and those who made it a bestseller knew.

It is a perfectly crafted, creatively conceived story and it is a story that delivered an unmistakable message about the Nazi menace. Taylor was inspired by what became of a couple she knew who moved to Germany in the 30's and from a newspaper article. This edition includes an introduction by the author's son who reveals some biographical detail and how the story came to be written. Even with this information and what we know of history, the story packs an unexpected punch. It takes fiction to the living edge of what it can do for society and culture.

This is a nicely produced edition, with a sturdy, flapped soft cover and rich vellum pages,worthy of the classic it is.

Best short story ever written and still relevant.......2007-03-26

An expertly written and moving short story set during the rise of 1930's Nationalism in Germany. Using the format of a series of correspondence betwen two business partners in the art trade, it traces their close relationship and how this develops when one returns to his German homeland at a time when Hitler is rising to power. With modern parallels to the current east-west political situation, this story is a must read.

Chilling Story of Nazis and Revenge.......2007-03-02

The relationship between two Germans -- one Gentile, the other Jewish -- quickly deteriorates with the rise of Hitler. The book, consisting entirely of trans-Atlantic correspondence, shows how seemingly normal people can be seduced by Fascism.

When the newly enthusiastic Nazi cruelly betrays his longtime friend and business partner, it is not the end, only the beginning. An unforgiveable crime is punished with an extremely creative and deeply vindictive act of revenge that will stay with you long after the last page is read. Moving, frightening, and fast-paced, this novella has stood the test of time.

Must read classic!.......2005-09-06

This is an excellent short story. So much to understand between the lines that makes the story even better. Excellent for anyone interested in history of the holocaust and human relations. Sure to become a classic!

Faith founded on fact: Essays in evidential apologetics

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A technical exposition of evidential Christian apologetics

Faith founded on fact: Essays in evidential apologetics
John Warwick Montgomery
Manufacturer: T. Nelson
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ASIN: 0840756410

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A provocative and controversial book intended to encourage Christian to make the case for the truthfulness of Christianity based on factual evidence. Included are chapters on "The Place of Reason in Christian Witness", "Science, Theology, and the Miraculous", "How Muslims Do Apologetics", and "Dr. Johnson as Apologist". Contains the most sophisticated refutation available anywhere of the arguments of David Hume and Anthony Flew against miracles in general and the resurrection of Christ in particular.

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A technical exposition of evidential Christian apologetics.......1997-11-18

Montgomery is one of the foremost exponents of evidential apologetics in evangelical Christian circles. In this collection of essays, Montgomery seeks to explain, defend and commend the use of evidence in Christian apologetics. He contrasts his position particularly with the presuppositionalist camp (Carl Henry, Van Til). Most of the essays are at a technical level. Topics treated include a defence of miracles, how Muslims do apologetics, Dr Samuel Johnson as an apologist, Biblical inerrancy, and Lutheran approaches to apologetics. It should be required reading in tertiary studies on Christian apologetics.

Powder River country: The papers of J. Elmer Brock

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Powder River country: The papers of J. Elmer Brock

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The new music lover's handbook
Elie Siegmeister
Manufacturer: Harvey House
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The Lion of Whitehall,
William H Townsend
Manufacturer: N. S. Berg
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Dare we be Masons,: And other addresses
Thomas Sherrard Roy
Manufacturer: [Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Commonwealth of Mass.]
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ASIN: B0007EFLA8

The black problem;: Papers and addresses on various native problems,

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The black problem;: Papers and addresses on various native problems,
Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu
Manufacturer: Negro Universities Press
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Keepsake Collection-Boxed Set: Inspirational Journal, Address Book, Book of Special Days

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Keepsake Collection-Boxed Set: Inspirational Journal, Address Book, Book of Special Days
Zondervan Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
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A naturalist's field guide
Lawrence Kilham
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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ASIN: 0811710122

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A comprehensive treatment of the statutes and cases of the early major developments in the law and practice of bankruptcy.

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