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Evaluation with Power becomes more important in the social sector every day. Donors no longer reward good intentions, they reward results. This book can help social sector leaders manage for the mission and measure results.
?Frances Hesselbein, president and CEO, Peter F. Drucker Foundation

Evaluation with Power transforms evaluation into a powerful tool nonprofits can use to help their organizations progress and change in ways that lead to greater achievement of mission. Building on THE INDEPENDENT SECTOR'S ongoing research on evaluation, it is a practical, comprehensive handbook for turning program, process, and organizational evaluation into a positive learning experience that connects performance to mission. The book focuses on the needs of the nonprofit and reveals the sort of evaluation that is most appropriate to and helpful for nonprofits.

Leading experts from a wide range of show how to use evaluation in key organizational areas, including program design, human resource management, information systems, volunteers, and more.

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Powerful and practical for the visionary........2006-11-10

If you believe evaluation is a tool for effective leadership, this book could be a good source for reaffirmation of your belief.

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Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and crops, and more than 100 drawings, this book, with its authoritative text, enables you to identify pests quickly--and to prevent, correct, or live with most common pest problems. Crop tables at the end of the book describe major pests on 30 vegetable and fruit tree crops and refer you to specific pages for more detail.
The book's approach minimizes the use of broad spectrum pesticides, relying primarily on alternatives such as: biological control; resistant varieties; traps and barriers; less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials; changing planting, irrigation, or cultivating procedures; and other preventive measures.
Includes: landscape designs that prevent pests; planting, irrigating, other plant care activities that prevent potential problems; resistant varieties; biological controls (use of parasites, predators, or pathogens); less-toxic pesticides such as soaps, oil, and microbials; mulches and other physical and mechanical controls; references, suppliers list, and glossary.Now in an extensively revised new edition, the highly successful Pests of the Garden and Small Farm adapts scientifically based integrated pest management techniques to the needs of the home gardener and small-scale farmer.

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Great Insect Book.......1996-06-07

A great book for reports and gardening. I like it and I am 12! Adults I have given it to also have liked it

Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide to Using Less Pesticide

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Pests of the Garden and Small Farm: A Grower's Guide to Using Less Pesticide
Mary Louise Flint
Manufacturer: Univ of California Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MBUIYU

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Clay plays an important role in everyday life. This versatile mineral is used in housing, improving the environment as a waste treatment material and also in biological applications and medical health care.

Clay Surfaces contains 17 chapters which deal with various aspects of natural and man made (synthetic) clay. Well written by experts in both experimental and theoretical areas, this book takes the reader into the fascinating world of the chemistry and physics of clay mineral surfaces and interfaces as well as the complex phenomena on the surfaces involved in clay related systems.

This book will provide a better understanding of the intervention mechanisms of interactions of soils in contact with wastes, actions to be taken in the case of chemical spillage, methods to improve the production of food without affecting the ecological balance, increased fixation of carbon in the soil to increase grain production and reduction of carbon dioxide release into the atmosphere.

*Applications covered describe the role of clays in environmental remediation and the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
* This book looks at theory and applications of both natural and modified clays from academic and industrial viewpoints.
* With broad appeal, this book is suitable for specialists directly involved in clay science and those undergraduate and graduate student studying related areas.

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Hardbound. Transportation involves a large number of complex and interacting relationships that are often difficult to analyze. Modelling involves the simplification and abstraction of the underlying, key relationships that assist this analysis. To this end, the last forty years have witnessed the development and application of a large number of techniques and procedures directed towards enhancing our understanding of the behaviour of the various agents who impact on transport systems. The toolkit now available to transport modellers has evolved from many disciplines, most notably economics, engineering, psychology, geography and statistics with the focus on studying the behaviour of individuals and groups.

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Since 2000, there has been an exponential amount of research completed in the field of transport modelling thereby creating a need for an expanded and revised edition of this book. National transport models have taken on the new modelling methods and there have been theoretical and empirical advances in performance measurement. Coverage will include current demand methods, data issues, valuation, cost and performance, and updated traffic models. Supplementary case studies will illustrate how modelling can be applied to the study of the different transport modes and the infrastructures that support them.

The second edition of this handbook will continue to be an essential reference for researchers and practioners in the field. All contributions are by leading experts in their fields and there is extensive cross-referencing of subject matter.

*Expanded coverage on emerging trends
*Updated case studies
*Addresses models for specific applications (i.e., parking, national traffic forecasting, public transport, urban freight movements, and logistics management)

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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston includes Sherston's Progress and both Memoirs.

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A Classic!.......2003-02-17

Sassoon's three volumes wrapped up into one take the reader into another world. First volume describes life in the English country, where a young George Sherston becomes completely immersed in fox hunting. To say he becomes consumed by this is an understatement. Sassoon's intimate depictions of the countryside, to include the life of a country gentleman are so detailed you can clearly "see" and feel how young George felt.

Volume 2, Memoirs of an infantry officer take George into the trenches of France, where again with graphic details, the horror and calamity of the fighting in WWI are brought to our attention. Of note is the latter part of the volume where Sherston's morals are challenged, and how he deals with this mental dilemma.

Volume 3 takes Sherston from the trenches of France, to a stint in Ireland and Palestine, but ultimately back to France where the novel is brilliantly wrapped up.

Sassoon's experiences in the war have given us perhaps one of the greatest novels from the era. The writing is absolutely outstanding and will give you pause to put the book down.

One of the great books about World War I........2001-10-17

World War I had a far greater impact on Britain than the US for the obvious reasons that they were in the war for over four years and suffered horrific casualties. The literature produced by that war made a sharp break from what came before, which reflected the feeling in the country that the war had irrevocably changed life in Britain. This is well illustrated in Siegfreid Sassoon's "The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston," a fictional version of his own experiences. The first part covers Sherston's pre-war life, with his obsession with fox-hunting. This is so well written that you will enjoy it even if you don't have the least interest in the subject.

The next section, "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" covers his experiences in World War I, during he is highly decorated. The horrors of the war, which many of Sassoon's class thought would be a great adventure, are accurately portrayed. Eventually he becomes disillusioned with the war, and writes a letter denouncing it that could have led to his court-martial. A close friend (Robert Graves in real life) gets him classified as having a mental disorder and he is sent off to a hospital to recuperate.

This book is deeply moving and is one of a handful of books that changed the way that the English-speaking world views war. Sassoon's writing style is plain on the surface, but its plainness makes the emotional impact all the greater.

A true classic.......2000-05-07

I had heard of this book many years before I was tempted to read it, and now I truly regret my lack of interest in Sassoon up to this point. He is a great poet, but as a memoirist he absolutely sparkles. Robert Graves' book, "Goodbye to all that", often described as a classic, is a mere string of unrelated anecdotes compared with Sassoon's modest, humorous, poignant account of his own youth, which takes us from his childhood in Kent to the end of his military career after the First World War. Don't hesitate to read this book, especially if you enjoy seeing the English language used at its very best.

The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston.......2000-03-12

I find this book completely compelling, particularly volume 2 (Memoirs of and Infantry Officer). The descriptions of degradation experienced by those who fought in the trenches and their ability to create a sub-culture of derring-do is powerful in its modesty.Sassoon's mounting frustration is skilfully portrayed, especially in his allusion to details about provision for and management of warfare. His ennui is almost palpable on those train journies across France.

The first volume (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man) is possibly of more interest to those of us born and raised in the parish where Sasson himself lived. I enjoyed playing 'spot-the-location', but must declare that I am in possession of a comprehensive list, produced by Brenchley History Society,of pseudonyms/real names.

The writing in this volume has some of the lyrical quality of his autobiography (The Old Century and Seven More Years - out of print)on which it is based. Rather than a treaties on Hunting, I consider this to be a gentle study of the awakening of Sassoon's poetic sensibilities; the Hunt and the relationships he formed with particular characters was, for him, an early catharsis. They also augur the events and characters in the following volume.

The final volume (Sherston's Progress)is probably most poignant if one is aware that this is, indeed, a thinly veiled autobiography. Sassoon's heroism is, for me, as great beyond the era of World War I as it is within it. This volume should certainly be read within the context of the previous two, but stands alone as a testament to the debt future generations owe to the perseverance of men such as Sassoon.

What's Wrong With Foxhunting?.......1999-12-09

A rhetorical question. I've looked for these memoirs off and on in used book shops for years, chiefly because I remembered the first, foxhunting volume so fondly. I don't agree at all with the other reviewers that this section of the "memoirs" is dull. If you like animals or learning about lost sports and conventions--alpine climbing when it was a club activity, say, or round-the-world sailing--you'll enjoy Sassoon's description of hunts and hunters, especially those of the equine sort.

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Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Siegfried Sassoon
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K7M95M

THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON.

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON.
Siegfried. Sassoon
Manufacturer: Reprint Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JIDBRW

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON.
Siegfried. Sassoon
Manufacturer: Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O6FCPI

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON.
Siegfried. Sassoon
Manufacturer: Reprint Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O8KPQC

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON
SASSOON SIEGFRIED
Manufacturer: FABER & FABER / REPRINT SOCIETY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S8G7WO

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Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Siegfried Sassoon
Manufacturer: FABER & FABER LTD (ENGLAND)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q13JOM

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THE COMPLETE MEMOIRS OF GEORGE SHERSTON.
Siegfried: Sassoon
Manufacturer: Pan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W33D22

The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston; Comprising Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress

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The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston; Comprising Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, and Sherston's Progress
Siegfried, Illustrated by Lamb, Lynton Sassoon
Manufacturer: Folio Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MFHO0C

Sassoon's Long Journey Selection from "Complete Memoirs of George sherston"

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Sassoon's Long Journey Selection from "Complete Memoirs of George sherston"
Paul & Sassoon Fussell
Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K7HMQ8

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This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability—in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis—who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.
Responding to the recent growth of illness and disability narratives in the United States—such works as Juliet Wittman’s Breast Cancer Journal, John Hockenberry’s Moving Violations, Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, and Lou Ann Walker’s A Loss for Words: The Story of Deafness in a Family—Couser addresses questions of both poetics and politics. He examines why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how and whether closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser’s discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people.
With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America.

Recovering Bodies Illness, Disability, and Life Writing

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Recovering Bodies Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
G. Thomas Couser
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS754M

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Recovering Bodies Illness, Disability, and Life-Writing
G. Thomas Couser
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS1O0S

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