Cost Accounting: Managerial Use of Accounting Data (Kent Series in Accounting)

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“The definitive book about planning and presenting professional development that energizes and empowers adult learners. Captures the heart and soul of the process.”
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Make your staff development stick with tips from top pros!

With new initiatives and requirements for classroom teaching and assessment, the challenges for staff developers are growing. Internationally recognized authors and consultants Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete help readers meet those challenges head-on. This book shares their deep expertise with tools to successfully guide staff to the highest levels of effectiveness, ultimately leading to greater student achievement.

From Staff Room to Classroom is built around four critical roles of the staff developer: designing, presenting, facilitating, and coaching. Rich with theoretical underpinnings, this book drills down to the essentials for each aspect and role. Offering concrete help for working with teachers using myriad real-life mentoring and coaching scenarios for reference and inspiration, this practical guide presents techniques for:

Customizing professional development to fit the unique needs of adult learners
Organizing a successful workshop
Incorporating five essential elements for sound training
Building relationships and community
Putting ideas into immediate practice using extensive reproducibles, templates, and practical tips

Focus on strategies that address your specific needs or simply follow the guide from beginning to end. This amazing tool kit of wisdom, know-how, and how-to is built on the expertise of tried-and-true best practices that work!

The Action Selling Sales Training Book Series (Action Selling Book Series)

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The Action Selling Sales Training Book Series (Action Selling Book Series)
Duane Sparks
Manufacturer: The Sales Board
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The Action Selling Sales Training and Selling Skills Book Series includes: - Action Selling: How to sell like a professional, even if you think you are one. -Selling Your Price: How to escape the race to the bargain basement - Questions: The Answer to Sales - Masters of Loyalty: How to turn your sales force into a loyalty force The Action Selling Book Series will dramatically improve the sales behavior of your sales force. Action Selling: Are your salespeople "Winging It" during calls? With Action Selling, they`ll learn the Five Critical Sales Skills that really matter and how to follow a proven process that has helped over 300,000 become top selling producers. Selling Your Price: Do your salespeople rely on old habits, manipulative tricks or price concessions to close the sale? With Selling Your Price, salespeople learn how to sell value and protect margins while winning more business. Questions: The Answer to Sales: Do your salespeople depend on the gift of gab to win sales? With Questions, they`ll know how and when to ask the best-questions that lead to gaining commitment. Masters of Loyalty: Do your salespeople sell loyalty? With Masters, they`ll learn how to create real loyalty; loyalty that makes customers stop shopping and be forever deaf to competitor`s appeals.

Coaching for Staff Development ((Personal and Professional Development Series))

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Coaching for Staff Development ((Personal and Professional Development Series))
Angela M. Thomas
Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited
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The effective manager gets work done largely through others and thus the ability to coach is one of the most important skills of a manager's job. It goes well beyond delegation and involves the short- and long-term development of staff.Good coaching brings direct benefits both to the organisation and to the individuals involved - better working practices, enhanced teamwork, increased creativity, better communication, less crisis management and enhanced personal satisfaction.

Coaching for technology integration: A strategy in staff development : (Dissertation)

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Coaching for technology integration: A strategy in staff development : (Dissertation)
Susan E. Holliday
Manufacturer: ProQuest Information and Learning
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Pedagogical Mismanagement & Orthopedagogy: Rearing, Treatment, Staff Coaching, Management

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Pedagogical Mismanagement & Orthopedagogy: Rearing, Treatment, Staff Coaching, Management
Judith E. Rink
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Readings from Educational Leadership: Coaching and Staff Development

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Readings from Educational Leadership: Coaching and Staff Development
Ronald S. Brandt
Manufacturer: Assn for Supervision & Curriculum
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The evolution of peer coaching and other alternatives to staff development

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The evolution of peer coaching and other alternatives to staff development
Jenetia D Meyer
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Peer coaching an effective staff development model for educators of linguistically and culturally diverse students (SuDoc ED 1.310/2:394300)

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Peer coaching an effective staff development model for educators of linguistically and culturally diverse students (SuDoc ED 1.310/2:394300)
U.S. Dept of Education
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Peer coaching: A strategy for improving staff development

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Peer coaching: A strategy for improving staff development
Mardell Jensen
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An easy-to-understand primer for any beginning stargazer.......2002-11-15

Collaboratively Nigel Henbest and Stuart Atkinson, The Night Sky is a brief yet vert nicely illustrated, full-color beginner's guide to stars and other fascinating things that can be viewed by children in the night sky, including comets, planets, and meteors. One of the titles in the outstanding "Usborne Spotter's Guides" series, The Night Sky is strongly recommended as a highly enjoyable and easy-to-understand primer for any beginning stargazer.

Usborne Spotter's Guides: The Night Sky.......2000-06-24

Covers the stars and the planets, and includes a detailed map of the moon. Includes a few quizzes even (i.e. name the constellations shown here). The book is small (7 X 4 1/2), which could be a drawback for some - too small for more than one child to see at a time, yet a plus for others who want to carry it in a pocket. The pages open well so that not too much info is hidden in the crack.

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The Sky at Night 10 (The Sky at Night)
Patrick Moore
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
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The Sky at Night 10
Patrick Moore
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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ASIN: B000JF9GG0

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Free radical reactions have become increasingly important and a very attractive tool in organic synthesis in the last two decades, due to their powerful, selective, specific, and mild reaction abilities. Advanced Free Radical Reactions for Organic Synthesis reviews information on all types of practical radical reactions, e.g. cyclizations, additions, hydrogen-atom abstractions, decarboxylation reactions. The book usefully provides experimental details for the most important reactions as well as numerous references to the original literature. By covering both the fundamentals and synthetic applications it is therefore suitable for both new and experienced researchers, chemists, biochemists, natural product chemists and graduate students. This title is the definitive guide to radical chemistry for all scientists.

- Introduces and reviews the use of radicals to perform synthetic transformations.
- Practical details are provided for the most important methods.
- Numerous references to the original literature.

Advanced Free Radical Reactions for Organic Synthesis

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Advanced Free Radical Reactions for Organic Synthesis
Hideo Togo
Manufacturer: Elsevier Science
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A comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to wavelets in statistics.

What are wavelets? What makes them increasingly indispensable in statistical nonparametrics? Why are they suitable for "time-scale" applications? How are they used to solve such problems as denoising, regression, or density estimation? Where can one find up-to-date information on these newly "discovered" mathematical objects? These are some of the questions Brani Vidakovic answers in Statistical Modeling by Wavelets. Providing a much-needed introduction to the latest tools afforded statisticians by wavelet theory, Vidakovic compiles, organizes, and explains in depth research data previously available only in disparate journal articles. He carefully balances both statistical and mathematical techniques, supplementing the material with a wealth of examples, more than 100 illustrations, and extensive references-with data sets and S-Plus wavelet overviews made available for downloading over the Internet. Both introductory and data-oriented modeling topics are featured, including:
* Continuous and discrete wavelet transformations.
* Statistical optimality properties of wavelet shrinkage.
* Theoretical aspects of wavelet density estimation.
* Bayesian modeling in the wavelet domain.
* Properties of wavelet-based random functions and densities.
* Several novel and important wavelet applications in statistics.
* Wavelet methods in time series.

Accessible to anyone with a background in advanced calculus and algebra, Statistical Modeling by Wavelets promises to become the standard reference for statisticians and engineers seeking a comprehensive introduction to an emerging field.

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Statistical Modeling by Wavelets.......2000-05-31

This book is excellent as a comprehensive introduction to up-to-date statistics via wavelets, and it is well written too, though there are a few of printing mistakes.

It does require certain math background to read this book. But the book gives reader quite deep insight of how apply wavelets to statistics.

capter 1.......1999-05-07

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STATISTICAL MODELING BY WAVELETS
B. VIDAKOVIC
Manufacturer: JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD
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The Garden is lush

The Italian Jewish Novel

A beautiful Garden

haunting love story

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
Giorgio Bassani
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
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Giorgio Bassani's masterwork has Vittorio de Sica's 1971 film adaptation to thank for its dual success and obscurity. Not enough people know that this tale of a middle-class Jewish youth's obsession with the far more aristocratic Micol Finzi-Contini stems from a novel, not a novelization. Bassani's doom- and tomb-ridden examination of one-sided love is far more complex--about individuals' inability to contend with personal and political annihilation. Events call for heroism, yet it seems "downright absurd that now, all of a sudden, exceptional behavior was demanded of us." The narrator writes in retrospect, 13 years after World War II's end, and reveals the Finzi-Continis' 1943 deportation to Germany right from the start: "Who could say if they found any sort of burial at all?"

As Fascist racial laws go from strength to strength, the family, which had long isolated itself from the other inhabitants of Ferrara, opens its walled grounds and tennis court to other young Jews and even returns to the local temple. Unfortunately, the situation encourages the narrator's dream that Micol will return his love, and she is forced into cruel honesty. "She looked into my eyes, and her gaze entered me, straight, sure, hard: with the limpid inexorability of a sword."

The author has re-created a tragic era in which even nobility could not outrun events, let alone admit they needed to. (For a nonfiction account of the fates of five Italian Jewish families under fascism, see Alexander Stille's Benevolence and Betrayal.) Bassani's elision of historical and personal agony is furthermore superbly translated by William Weaver. All is foretold in the novel's Manzonian epigraph, "The heart, to be sure, always has something to say about what is to come, to him who heeds it. But what does the heart know? Only a little of what has already happened."

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Giorgio Bassani’s acclaimed novel of unrequited love and the plight of the Italian Jews on the brink of World War II has become a classic of modern Italian literature.

Made into an Academy Award—winning film in 1970, The Garden of the Finzi—Continis is a richly evocative and nostalgic depiction of prewar Italy. The narrator, a young middle-class Jew in the Italian city of Ferrara, has long been fascinated from afar by the Finzi-Continis, a wealthy and aristocratic Jewish family, and especially by their daughter Micol. But it is not until 1938 that he is invited behind the walls of their lavish estate, as local Jews begin to gather there to avoid the racial laws of the Fascists, and the garden of the Finzi-Continis becomes an idyllic sanctuary in an increasingly brutal world. Years after the war, the narrator returns in memory to his doomed relationship with the lovely Micol, and to the predicament that faced all the Ferrarese Jews, in this unforgettably wrenching portrait of a community about to be destroyed by the world outside the garden walls.

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The Garden is lush.......2007-03-18

Bassani's Garden is a book worth reading. I enjoyed it because it seemed to capture a world about which I knew little before: aristocratic and middle class Italian Jewish society before the second world war. It is a melancholy world to be sure, but not unpleasant. Tim Parks' introduction to the always well-produced Everyman edition was well done, and shed light on aspects of the novel of which I was not aware. Readers of Lampedusa's The Leopard will likely enjoy The Garden, as both take a literarily mature and nostalgic look at a society which no longer exists. For myself, I enjoyed The Leopard better, but this is to take nothing away from The Garden, which is fine in its own right.

The Italian Jewish Novel.......2004-11-23

If you are looking for a narrative investigation into the Jewish identity in Italy, you will love "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" and its insight on the awkward years after the approval of the racial laws in Italy. Similarly, the protagonist's vain and self-defeating struggle for love in times of impinging war deploys a tension worth of such classics as Stendhal, Henry James, or the Brontes. (A painstaking quote of a poem by Emily Dickinson signs a major turn of the plot, and could possibly disclose the whole meaning of the novel.) I wish other books by Bassani were currently available in English.

A beautiful Garden.......2004-02-21

We know so much about German Jews and the problems they faced with the Nazism, and so little on the Italian Jews in the same time, that Giorgio Bassani's `The Garden of Finzi-Continis' stands as a remarkable thing. This is not the only reason to read and praise this novel. This book is filled with wonderful characters that make it a great work of fiction.

Set in an Italian small town called Ferrara, `Garden...' follows a couple of years in the life of the narrator. Years after the events, he is forced to remember the whole story, and that's the beginning of the narrative's journey. We follow him from a small and naïve boy worried with school grades until when he is a grown-up in love with the Finzi-Contini girl and has his political sense developed.

Bassani has a wonderful prose. Many pages of the book are devoted to beautifully evocative descriptions of things like the house, the city, the garden. That is one of the things that make this book so magical.

Another one is its vivid characters. Everyone seems to be real people and not literary creations, and this is a great achievement for a writer. The narrator is the person who goes through the most drastic transformation. Throughout his story he learns the importance of his past and roots, and how they are place in contemporary history.

`The Garden of the Finzi-Contini' is one of those books that don't take too long to read, but take a very long period to be forgotten. And to some people it will never be forgotten.

haunting love story.......2003-08-30

This is a love story, a story about growing up, a story about discovering one's three rich heritages (Italian and Jewish and literary). And it is a story about a boy becoming a writer.

There must be thousands such coming-of-age stories; thousands of stories about that first (and naturally unrequited) love; and, since most of the people who write these stories are authors there are even a few tales of how boys grow up to become writers.

And yet this tale is haunting. It grips the reader and never lets him go till the end and even long after. And that is because this is also a story about a murder.

The murder is barely mentioned. Oh, the narrator invokes it once or twice when for example he tells us that when he looked out at his family members during a Passover meal "most of whom, a few years later would be swallowed up by German crematory ovens" he found almost all of them terribly bland and bourgeois. He also mentions it at the beginning when he informs us that his first (unrequited) love, Micol, her father, her mother, and her Grandmother were all "deported to Germany in the autumn of `43". But that's not what this story is about.

This is not a story about concentration camps and the mechanized degradation there. This is a hauntingly, heart-breakingly beautiful story about a young man and a first love in a wondrous garden. A story that comes to an abrupt end because the children (the real flowers in the Garden of the Finzi-Continis) are made to pay the ultimate price because the Italians around them first resented that "the Jews were not enough like the others and then, having ascertained their almost total assimilation into their surroundings, [resented] the opposite: that they were just like the others."

It is, in the end (to paraphrase Amos Oz), about Jews who were not to be special and who were not to be banal; who were not to be.

Fine Novel.......2003-04-27

Some readers will be familiar with this story because this novel was the basis for the beautiful and haunting film of the same title. Comparisons between the film and the book are inevitable. The basic story is identical in both. The narrator is a young, middle class Italian Jew in the provincial city of Ferrara. The events take place on the eve of WWII and are set against the background of the anti-semitic legislation and policies of the Italian fascist state. The book recounts the hopeless infatuation of the narrator with the daughter of a wealthy Jewish family. This doomed and largely one-sided passion is presented subtly as an allegory of the fate of the Italian Jewish community. Not surprisingly, the book is considerably more detailed than the movie, more detached, and at times almost ironic in tone. The quality of writing is excellent, even in translation, and the characterization of pre-war Ferrara is evocative. The gradual constriction of the life of Italian Jews emerges slowly and indirectly, but with great power. The book also features an important subplot concerning the narrator's relationship with his father which is also presented with delicacy and real pathos. This is one of those books whose impact tends to linger well after you finish reading it.

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Giorgio Bassani
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The Garden Of The Finzi-continis - Library Of The Holocaust
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