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30 Days to a Happy Employee: How a Simple Program of Acknowledgment Can Build Trust and Loyalty at Work $14.99 It’s not more money, bigger offices, better benefits, or flextime. Recent surveys reveal that the number one reason employees quit their jobs is that they don’t feel valued on a human level. Growing employment opportunities and the lure of Internet companies have brought this prob- lem to near crisis level. Now, Dottie Gandy, a former regional director with the Franklin Covey Company, provides a simple, principle-based solution that will work to solve the problem in any business. In this clear, straight-foward book, she gives us a step-by-step plan that managers can implement immediately and which yields compelling results, including: A strong sense of loyalty and commitment among employees A new corporate culture built on a foundation of trust and designed to weather storms A renewed sense of mission that can have a substantial impact on the bottom line |
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A model of continuous feedback for aligning curriculum of bachelor of science degree programs with the changing needs of technical industries. $49.99 Many university programs aim to prepare graduates for positions in technical fields. As technology is continuously changing and the focus of business enterprises has shifted to more of a global nature, institutions of higher education must develop a method of updating program curricula in order to most appropriately prepare graduates for entry-level positions. The purpose of this study was to develop a method of surveying industry experts to identify changes technical industries will face in the future for application in higher education curriculums. Specifically, this study was completed to determine current and future skills required of apparel designers for entry level positions.;Apparel design program administrators are continually faced with updating curriculum in order to most appropriately prepare graduates for careers in the apparel industry. The problem with identifying the skills currently required of entry-level designers is that the skills change as the apparel industry evolves. Therefore, in order for the changing needs of the apparel industry to be addressed by an apparel program, a method of surveying the apparel industry for current and future needs must be developed. This study involved surveying current apparel industry professionals via a Delphi study technique to identify current and future skills required of fashion designers in entry level positions. The Delphi Technique utilized to gather expert opinions employed 2 rounds of surveys all delivered and returned via Survey Monkey, an on-line survey tool. The first round requested that participants identify the current and future skill sets required of entry-level apparel designers, and identify potential changes the apparel industry will experience over the next seven years. The second round refined these skill sets and attempted to reach general agreement amongst the panelists. The identified current and future skill sets can be utilized by program administrators to maintain and update program |
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A model of continuous feedback for aligning curriculum of bachelor of science degree programs with the changing needs of technical industries. $108 Many university programs aim to prepare graduates for positions in technical fields. As technology is continuously changing and the focus of business enterprises has shifted to more of a global nature, institutions of higher education must develop a method of updating program curricula in order to most appropriately prepare graduates for entry-level positions. The purpose of this study was to develop a method of surveying industry experts to identify changes technical industries will face in the future for application in higher education curriculums. Specifically, this study was completed to determine current and future skills required of apparel designers for entry level positions.;Apparel design program administrators are continually faced with updating curriculum in order to most appropriately prepare graduates for careers in the apparel industry. The problem with identifying the skills currently required of entry-level designers is that the skills change as the apparel industry evolves. Therefore, in order for the changing needs of the apparel industry to be addressed by an apparel program, a method of surveying the apparel industry for current and future needs must be developed. This study involved surveying current apparel industry professionals via a Delphi study technique to identify current and future skills required of fashion designers in entry level positions. The Delphi Technique utilized to gather expert opinions employed 2 rounds of surveys all delivered and returned via Survey Monkey, an on-line survey tool. The first round requested that participants identify the current and future skill sets required of entry-level apparel designers, and identify potential changes the apparel industry will experience over the next seven years. The second round refined these skill sets and attempted to reach general agreement amongst the panelists. The identified current and future skill sets can be utilized by program administrators to maintain and update program |
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A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings $4.71 One of the most gifted and influential American journalists of the 20th century, A. J. Liebling spent five years reporting the dramatic events and myriad individual stories of World War II. As a correspondent for The New Yorker, Liebling wrote with a passionate commitment to Allied victory, an unfailing attention to telling details, and an appreciation for the literary challenges presented by the ‘discursive, centrifugal, both repetitive and disparate’ nature of war. This volume brings together three books along with 26 uncollected New Yorker pieces and two excerpts from The Republic of Silence (1947), Liebling’s collection of writing from the French Resistance.The Road Back to Paris (1944) narrates Liebling’s experiences from September 1939 to March 1943, including his shock at the fall of France and dismay at isolationist indifference in the United States; it contains classic accounts of a winter voyage on a Norwegian tanker during the Battle of the Atlantic, visits to front-line airfields in North Africa, and the defeat of a veteran panzer division by American troops in Tunisia. Mollie and Other War Pieces (1964) brings together Liebling’s portrait of a legendary nonconformist American soldier in North Africa with his eyewitness account of Omaha Beach on D-Day, evocative reports from Normandy, and investigation of a German atrocity in rural France. In Normandy Revisited (1958) Liebling writes about his return to France in 1955 and recalls the joyous liberation of his beloved Paris while exploring with bittersweet perception how wartime experience is transformed into memory. The selection of uncollected New Yorker pieces includes a profile of an RAF ace, surveys of the French underground press, and an encounter with a captured collaborator in Brittany, as well as postwar reflections on battle fatigue, Ernie Pyle, and the writing of military history.With maps and chronology. |
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Advanced Distance Sampling: Estimating abundance of biological populations $60 This advanced text focuses on the uses of distance sampling to estimate the density and abundance of biological populations. It addresses new methodologies, new technologies and recent developments in statistical theory and is the follow up companion to Introduction to Distance Sampling (OUP, 2001). In this text, a general theoretical basis is established for methods of estimating animal abundance from sightings surveys, and a wide range of approaches to analysis of sightings data is explored. These approaches include: modelling animal detectability as a function of covariates, where the effects of habitat, observer, weather, etc. on detectability can be assessed; estimating animal density as a function of location, allowing for example animal density to be related to habitat and other locational covariates; estimating change over time in populations, a necessary aspect of any monitoring program; estimation when detection of animals on the line or at the point is uncertain, as often occurs for marine populations, or when the survey region has dense cover; survey design and automated design algorithms, allowing rapid generation of sound survey designs using geographic information systems; adaptive distance sampling methods, which concentrate survey effort in areas of high animal density; passive distance sampling methods, which extend the application of distance sampling to species that cannot be readily detected in sightings surveys, but can be trapped; and testing of methods by simulation, so that performance of the approach in varying circumstances can be assessed. |
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Agnes Chase’s First Book of Grasses: The Structure of Grasses Explained for Beginners $19.95 For almost seventy-five years, Agnes Chase’s First Book of Grasses has been the classic guide to the structure of this complex group of plants. Clearly written and copiously illustrated with line drawings, the book is accessible to those with little or no botanical training, yet it also is respected by botanists as an authoritative introduction to agrostology.Last updated in 1959, the book now has been thoroughly revised to reflect current scientific knowledge, nomenclature, and classification. Divided into twelve lessons, the guide first surveys the basic vegetative and reproductive parts of a grass plant, then in succeeding lessons takes up increasingly more complex modifications. Formally recognized groups of grasses are discussed in a taxonomic context, with the principal focus on grass structures, particularly those of inflorescences and spikelets. Virtually all of the species discussed are illustrated with detailed line drawings. With the addition in this edition of a lesson on bamboos, coverage now extends to tropical regions and encompasses all major groups of grasses. The book also includes a short biography of Agnes Chase in the foreword and, for the first time in this edition, a glossary accompanies the appendices on grass classification. |
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Alkaloids: Chemical and Biological Perspectives, Volume 12 $236.41 Acronycine, a potent antitumor agent, was discovered in the bark of the small Australian Rutaceous tree, Acronychia baueri Schott. This new work presents a comprehensive survey of the isolation, structure determination, methods of synthesis, and the biological properties of acronycine, as well as an account of natural and synthetic analogues of acronycine, and their biological properties. Solanum alkaloids were reviewed in 1990 and this book surveys the new developments (isolation procedures, structural elucidation methods) and critically updates earlier reviews. In addition it presents the interesting chemistry and synthesis of cyclopeptide alkaloids. These cyclopeptide alkaloids have been isolated from ascidians, sea hares, and cyanobacteria. Also included are reviews of the use of the functionalized lactam, pyroglutamic acid, as a chiral template for the synthesis of alkaloids. The second review examines the on-line coupling of capillary electrophoresis (CE) and mass spectrometry (MS) for the analysis of alkaloid mixtures. Finally a review of oxygenated analogs of the alkaloid Marcfortine for their potent antiparasitic activity is included at the end of this work. Each chapter in this volume has been reviewed by at least one expert in the field. Indexes for both subjects and organisms are provided. |
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American Inventions $32 Every American knows that Thomas Alva Edison’s most famous invention was the light bulb, but who invented the pregnancy test? How was the airbag invented? How was the first computer patented? Stephen van Dulken examines the way inventions and patents such as these have helped to create the American Dream. Between 1911 and 1999, the number of registered U.S. patents rose from 1 million to 6 million. Showcasing dozens of those original patent drawings from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, American Inventions shows how trends in the history of the United States are reflected in the patent records. For example, the invention of the Frisbee dates back to 1920 when a Yale University student recalled throwing around the pie tins of the nearby Frisbee Baking Company, but it was not until 1948 that Fred Morrison and Warren Francioni capitalized on Americans’ new-found fascination with flying saucers by applying for a patent on a plastic flying disk. Van Dulken surveys the inventions and patents of the workplace, the home, the kitchen, the open road, and the beauty parlor, to name a few, to find the compelling stories and eureka moments in American history. From bobby pins to in-line skates, from the jukebox to the fax machine, American Inventions is a captivating catalog of the famous and not-so-famous contraptions that have shaped the American way of life. |
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An Essay On The Cardinal Points $14.14 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Mr. Pitman seems to have taken no notice of them, whatever, in his Reply. The first extract which Mr. Pitman make’s from Prof. Davies’ Book on Surveying is found on p. 93, as follows: ” When the compass is placed on its stand, and the needle is allowed to settle to a state of rest, the direction it assumes has been named the magnetic meridian. Although this line is different from the true meridian, yet in the surveys made with the compass, we shall take for the meridian that line which is determined by the magnetic needle.” Now, as this was from a text book for teaching the art of ”Surveying with the Compass,” it was very proper for the author to commence with the compass, imperfect as it is, and describe the method of taking bearings with it, and then to calculate the area of Surveys made with it; for although, as the author says in the beginning, its needle indicates ” a line different from the true meridian,” yet for the purposes of instruction in the rudiments of Surveying, it answered just as well without its adjustments for variation as with it; especially as this was to be fully explained before closing his instructions on ” Compass Surveying.” For as’ Professflr Gillcspie says in his ” Surveying,” page 137, “Its not pointing exactly to the true north does not indeed affect the correctness of the angles measured by it.” And this fact may be familiarly illustrated by a correct time-keeper; a watch, for instance, which may have been set so far back, or forward, that the true ” time of day ” would not be indicated by it, without allowing for its variation from true time; and yet the difference of time from 9 o’clock to 12, by that watch, is as truly 3 hours as though it had been adjusted or set truly by the dial, or by the sun at noon. Again, this ‘watch ‘ |
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An Essay on the Cardinal Points $17.19 Used – Excerpt from book: Mr. Pitman seems to have taken no notice of them, whatever, in his Reply. The first extract which Mr. Pitman make’s from Prof. Davies’ Book on Surveying is found on p. 93, as follows: ” When the compass is placed on its stand, and the needle is allowed to settle to a state of rest, the direction it assumes has been named the magnetic meridian. Although this line is different from the true meridian, yet in the surveys made with the compass, we shall take for the meridian |
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An Essay on the Cardinal Points $17.19 New – Excerpt from book: Mr. Pitman seems to have taken no notice of them, whatever, in his Reply. The first extract which Mr. Pitman make’s from Prof. Davies’ Book on Surveying is found on p. 93, as follows: ” When the compass is placed on its stand, and the needle is allowed to settle to a state of rest, the direction it assumes has been named the magnetic meridian. Although this line is different from the true meridian, yet in the surveys made with the compass, we shall take for the meridian |
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Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome $46.95 Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts.Covering a huge area geographically and chronologically, it brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west AsiaExamining both pre-Classical and Classical periods, this is an excellent introductory textbook for students of classical studies and archaeology alike. |
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Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome $33.7 Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the cities, their architecture and natural topography, and the cultural and historical contexts in which they flourished. Attention is also paid to non-urban features such as religious sanctuaries and burial grounds, places and institutions that were a familiar part of the city dweller’s experience. Objects or artifacts that represented the essential furnishings of everyday life are discussed, such as pottery, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics and coins. Ancient Cities is unusual in presenting this wide range of Old World cultures in such comprehensive detail, giving equal weight to the Preclassical and Classical periods, and in showing the links between these ancient cultures.User-friendly features include:use of clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledgelavishly illustrated with over 300 line drawings, maps, and photoshistorical summaries, further reading arranged by topic, plus a consolidated bibliography and comprehensive indexnew to the second edition: a companion website with an interactive timeline, chapter summaries, study questions, and illustrations; a timeline allowing easy comparison of urban habitation; and a glossary of archaeological and historical terms.In this second edition, Charles Gates has comprehensively revised and updated his original text, and Neslihan Yılmaz has reworked her acclaimed illustrations. Readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a new chapter on Phoenician cities in the first millennium BC, and new sections on Göbekli Tepe, |
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Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome $130 Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the cities, their architecture and natural topography, and the cultural and historical contexts in which they flourished. Attention is also paid to non-urban features such as religious sanctuaries and burial grounds, places and institutions that were a familiar part of the city dweller’s experience. Objects or artifacts that represented the essential furnishings of everyday life are discussed, such as pottery, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics and coins. Ancient Cities is unusual in presenting this wide range of Old World cultures in such comprehensive detail, giving equal weight to the Preclassical and Classical periods, and in showing the links between these ancient cultures.User-friendly features include:use of clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledgelavishly illustrated with over 300 line drawings, maps, and photoshistorical summaries, further reading arranged by topic, plus a consolidated bibliography and comprehensive indexnew to the second edition: a companion website with an interactive timeline, chapter summaries, study questions, and illustrations; a timeline allowing easy comparison of urban habitation; and a glossary of archaeological and historical terms.In this second edition, Charles Gates has comprehensively revised and updated his original text, and Neslihan Yılmaz has reworked her acclaimed illustrations. Readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a new chapter on Phoenician cities in the first millennium BC, and new sections on Göbekli Tepe, |
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Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome $46.95 Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts.Covering a huge area geographically and chronologically, it brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west AsiaExamining both pre-Classical and Classical periods, this is an excellent introductory textbook for students of classical studies and archaeology alike. |
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Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome $46.95 Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts.Covering a huge area geographically and chronologically, it brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west AsiaExamining both pre-Classical and Classical periods, this is an excellent introductory textbook for students of classical studies and archaeology alike. |
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Archaeology and the Old Testament $16.77 Archaeological discoveries can shed a flood of light on the biblical text. This richly illustrated resource, now available in paperback, offers illuminating archaeological information related to the Old Testament.In this readable and accessible volume, Alfred Hoerth surveys the entire Old Testament, pointing out the relevant archaeological material and explaining how it enriches biblical studies. In an attempt to bridge the Old and New Testament worlds, he devotes the final chapter to an examination of the intertestamental period. The text boasts over 250 illustrative items–charts, photographs, line drawings, and maps. |
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Archaeology in Washington $44.95 Archaeology-along with Native American traditions and memories-holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date much of what has been learned about the state’s prehistory and the environments early people experienced. It presents a sample of sites representing Washington’s geographic regions and touches on historical archaeology, including excavations at fur-trade forts and the Whitman mission, and Cathlapotle, a Columbia River village visited by Lewis and Clark. The authors portray the discovery of a mastodon butchered by hunters on the Olympic Peninsula 14,000 years ago; the nearly 13,000-year-old Clovis points in an East Wenatchee apple orchard; an 11,200-year-old “Marmes Man” in the Palouse; and the controversial “Kennewick Man,” more than 9,000 years old, eroded out of the riverbank at Tri-Cities. They discuss a 5,000-year-old camas earth oven in the Pend Oreille country; 5,000 years of human habitation at Seattle’s Metro sewage treatment site; the recovery at Hoko River near Neah Bay of a 3,200-year-old fishnet made of split spruce boughs and tiny stone knife blades still hafted in cedar handles; and the world-renowned coastal excavations at Ozette, where mudslides repeatedly swept into houses, burying and preserving them. The tale ranges from the earliest bands of hunters, fishers, and gatherers to the complex social organizations and highly developed technologies of native peoples at the time of their disruption by the arrival of Euro-American newcomers. Also included is a summary of the changing role, techniques, and perspectives of archaeology itself, from the surveys and salvage excavationbarely ahead of dam construction on the Snake and among Columbia rivers to today’s collaboration between archaeologists, Native Americans, private landowners, and public agencies. Color photographs, line drawings, and maps lavishly illustrate the text. |
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Archaeology in Washington $26.95 Archaeology-along with Native American traditions and memories-holds a key to understanding early chapters of the human story in Washington. This all-new book draws together and brings up to date much of what has been learned about the state’s prehistory and the environments early people experienced. It presents a sample of sites representing Washington’s geographic regions and touches on historical archaeology, including excavations at fur-trade forts and the Whitman mission, and Cathlapotle, a Columbia River village visited by Lewis and Clark. The authors portray the discovery of a mastodon butchered by hunters on the Olympic Peninsula 14,000 years ago; the nearly 13,000-year-old Clovis points in an East Wenatchee apple orchard; an 11,200-year-old “Marmes Man” in the Palouse; and the controversial “Kennewick Man,” more than 9,000 years old, eroded out of the riverbank at Tri-Cities. They discuss a 5,000-year-old camas earth oven in the Pend Oreille country; 5,000 years of human habitation at Seattle’s Metro sewage treatment site; the recovery at Hoko River near Neah Bay of a 3,200-year-old fishnet made of split spruce boughs and tiny stone knife blades still hafted in cedar handles; and the world-renowned coastal excavations at Ozette, where mudslides repeatedly swept into houses, burying and preserving them. The tale ranges from the earliest bands of hunters, fishers, and gatherers to the complex social organizations and highly developed technologies of native peoples at the time of their disruption by the arrival of Euro-American newcomers. Also included is a summary of the changing role, techniques, and perspectives of archaeology itself, from the surveys and salvage excavationbarely ahead of dam construction on the Snake and among Columbia rivers to today’s collaboration between archaeologists, Native Americans, private landowners, and public agencies. Color photographs, line drawings, and maps lavishly illustrate the text. |
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Blooming And Contending $31.95 Chinese literature has been the slave of politics at least since 1948 and especially during the Cultural Revolution. So repressed and convoluted is most Chinese literature that the West cannot read it as literature at all but rather as sociological and political texts. Professor Duke believes this has changed enough since 1977 to permit genuine literary analysis. This book surveys and analyzes the most important literary events in the PRC from 1977 to 1982. Chapter I covers the significant changes in the Chinese Party line on literature and art during this period and thus provides the backdrop for literary and artistic endeavor. Subsequent chapters deal with the critique of Chinese literature by China’s own writers, the neo-realistic fiction of 1979-80, the nonfiction works of a courageous investigative reporter for the People’s Daily, and the theme of humanism and its treatment in the works of Bai Hua and Dai Houying. The final chapter discusses the post-Mao generation of young writers, who are trying to create works that go beyond narrowly ideological boundaries of the past and reach toward a true modern Chinese literature. |
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Britain’s modern Royal Air Force $0.63 Used – This is an up-to-date review of the Royal Air Force in the mid-1990s, both in the air and on the ground, from front-line Tornado fighters to fire-fighting vehicles. It is a complete account of an air force in a profound state of change, adapting to its role in the new world order while coping with an ever-decreasing budget. The book surveys the organization of the RAF, and looks in detail at the structure and operational status of Strike, Personnel and Training, and Logistics Commands, pl |
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Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad $26.96 Used – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad built a branch of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company from that company’s main line at Arlington south to Condon, Oregon, United States. The company was incorporated on August 22, 1903, and finished construction in 1905. A predecessor, Oregon Southern Railway, made surveys and acquired right-of-way, but did no |
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Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad $26.96 New – Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Columbia River and Oregon Central Railroad built a branch of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company from that company’s main line at Arlington south to Condon, Oregon, United States. The company was incorporated on August 22, 1903, and finished construction in 1905. A predecessor, Oregon Southern Railway, made surveys and acquired right-of-way, but did not |
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Communicating Change: Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals $0.25 When a company decides to make a major organizational change­­whether it’s a new emphasis on customer service,quality management,restructuring or downsizing­­managers must get the message through to front-line employees,and enlist their support. . . or the changes will create more turmoil than progress. Written for busy managers at all levels,Communicating Change offers specific prescriptions for effecting successful change centered around three guiding principles:Conveying the message through supervisors Communicating face-to-face Making the changes relevant to each work area In addition,a variety of helpful forms,checklists,sample communications,and surveys help managers to quickly put these principles into action. |
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Communicating Change: Winning Employee Support for New Business Goals $22.95 When a company decides to make a major organizational change–whether it”s a new emphasis on customer service, quality management, restructuring or downsizing–managers must get the message through to front-line employees, and enlist their support…or the changes will create more turmoil than progress.Written for busy managers at all levels, Communicating Change offers specific prescriptions for effecting successful change centered around three guiding principles: Conveying the message through supervisors Communicating face-to-face Making the changes relevant to each work area In addition, a variety of helpful forms, checklists, sample communications, and surveys help managers to quickly put these principles into action. |
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Community college leadership succession: Perceptions and plans of community college leaders. $49.99 An aging workforce and shortage of qualified workers are creating a competition for talented leaders across the country and the world. The high expectations and credentialing requirements for leaders within higher education make the competitive climate a major hurdle for institutions of higher education. This phenomenon has come to be referred to as the "leadership crisis" within higher education. Succession planning and talent management refers to the techniques used by organizations to attract, develop, and retain employees to meet current and future leadership and staffing needs. Those organizations that are successful at developing and attracting the needed talent to meet future leadership and workforce needs will have a competitive advantage moving forward, particularly in industries such as higher education where institutions are differentiated, in part, by the individuals that lead and operate them. This descriptive multimethod study is intended to identify perceptions of current Maricopa Community College District leadership regarding the leadership crisis and plans and activities to address the crisis. On-line surveys of 52 Maricopa Community College leaders combined with 10 face-to-face interviews were conducted to make these determinations. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed and the results presented for each of the study’s research sub problems. Findings related to perceptions of the leadership crisis, succession planning and talent management activities, and qualities desired in future leaders were presented. Conclusions and recommendations for practical application were made. The findings, conclusions, and recommendations of this study may be useful to anyone charged with examining or addressing the leadership crisis, including current leadership, human resource practitioners, and those involved in organizational and strategic planning. |
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Community college leadership succession: Perceptions and plans of community college leaders. $49.99 An aging workforce and shortage of qualified workers are creating a competition for talented leaders across the country and the world. The high expectations and credentialing requirements for leaders within higher education make the competitive climate a major hurdle for institutions of higher education. This phenomenon has come to be referred to as the "leadership crisis" within higher education. Succession planning and talent management refers to the techniques used by organizations to attract, develop, and retain employees to meet current and future leadership and staffing needs. Those organizations that are successful at developing and attracting the needed talent to meet future leadership and workforce needs will have a competitive advantage moving forward, particularly in industries such as higher education where institutions are differentiated, in part, by the individuals that lead and operate them. This descriptive multimethod study is intended to identify perceptions of current Maricopa Community College District leadership regarding the leadership crisis and plans and activities to address the crisis. On-line surveys of 52 Maricopa Community College leaders combined with 10 face-to-face interviews were conducted to make these determinations. Quantitative and qualitative data were analyzed and the results presented for each of the study’s research sub problems. Findings related to perceptions of the leadership crisis, succession planning and talent management activities, and qualities desired in future leaders were presented. Conclusions and recommendations for practical application were made. The findings, conclusions, and recommendations of this study may be useful to anyone charged with examining or addressing the leadership crisis, including current leadership, human resource practitioners, and those involved in organizational and strategic planning. |
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Computer integrated testing $5.05 Used – A practical guide to incorporating computer-integrated testing (CIT) procedures into a computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) line. Surveys the latest automated test equipment (ATE) and discusses how to integrate ATE into CIM in order to maximize benefits. Contains case studies in CIT, focusing on applications in the electronics industry. |
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Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty $45 The international community’s commitment to halve global poverty by 2015 has been enshrined in the first Millennium Development Goal. How global poverty is measured is a critical element in assessing progress towards this goal, and different researchers have presented widely-varying estimates. The chapters in this volume address a range of problems in the measurement and estimation of global poverty, from a variety of viewpoints. Topics covered include the controversies surrounding the definition of a global poverty line; the use of purchasing power parity exchange rates to map the poverty line across countries; and the quality, and appropriate use, of data from national accounts and household surveys. Both official and independent estimates of global poverty have proved to be controversial, and this volume presents and analyses the lively debate that has ensued. |
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Detailed Geophysical Fault Characterization in Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site, Nevada $24.89 New – Original publisher: Reston, Va.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2009. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)310353102 Subject: Geophysics — Nevada — Nevada Test Site. Excerpt: …The 2006 DC and AMT surveys were designed to examine, in greater detail, the subsurface geology of known fault zones in the vicinity of the two drill holes by using DC resistivity and AMT measurements. Near U – 7cd, the Yucca fault escarpment, which was crossed in 2005 by line YFRESEW on its eastern terminus, |
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Detailed Geophysical Fault Characterization in Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site, Nevada $24.89 Used – Original publisher: Reston, Va.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 2009. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)310353102 Subject: Geophysics — Nevada — Nevada Test Site. Excerpt: …The 2006 DC and AMT surveys were designed to examine, in greater detail, the subsurface geology of known fault zones in the vicinity of the two drill holes by using DC resistivity and AMT measurements. Near U – 7cd, the Yucca fault escarpment, which was crossed in 2005 by line YFRESEW on its eastern terminus |
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Directing Web Traffic: How to Get Users to Your Site and Keep Them There $1.99 This is a book on website promotion by designers for designers. It shows how to use design effectively for the internet- how design can create interest and awareness around a website, help attract and keep visitors and ensure that they see what the designer wants them to. Tried and tested off and on-line promotional strategies are covered, as is search engine maximization, navigation, advertisements (banners, pop-ups and more), on-line surveys and guerilla marketing. Profiles of a range of sites and campaigns show how good web marketing works-and what should be avoided. |
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Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America $20 A radically new vision of women and girls living below the poverty line; Lisa Dodson makes a frontal assault on conventional attitudes and stereotypes of women in poor America and the seriously misguided “welfare reform” policies of the end of the century.”I hear Odessa, a thirty-two-year-old woman, speak at a forum on welfare reform. I ask her about the phrase she used, ‘Don’t call me out of name,’ for it seemed to speak for a whole nation of people. Odessa tells me that women who have no money and no one to stand up for them get put into a bad position and they get misnamed. Most often they get called ‘welfare mothers’ or ‘recipients,’ words she will no longer acknowledge. With millions alongside her, Odessa has emerged by her own strength and some opportunity, and now she insists upon naming herself.”While Lisa Dodson was working in a Charlestown factory twenty years ago, the stories of the women she worked with daily captivated her; she listened to them speak about harsh lives and their deep commitment to family and community. It was the beginning of Dodson’s desire to learn the truth and write it down.For over eight years, Dodson has been documenting the lives of girls and women-hundreds of white, African-American, Latino, Haitian, Irish, and other women in personal interviews, focus groups, surveys, and Life-History Studies. This book is a crossing—a class crossing—taking readers into fellowship with people who are seldom invited to speak but who have powerful stories to tell and who force us to abandon common myths that have been fed to us by the media about school dropouts, teen pregnancy, and welfare “cheats.” Don’t Call Us Out of Name delves deeply into the realities of their lives, often with surprising and uplifting stories of commonplace courage, unimaginable strength, and resourcefulness. Lisa Dodson does not simply give us the truth about women living in poverty but offers realistic hope for meaningful policy reform based on |
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Drug Bioavailability: Estimation of Solubility, Permeability, Absorption and Bioavailability $260 In order to reach its intended site of action, the drug molecules in every pill that we swallow must first be absorbed, transported via the bloodstream and evade various mechanisms that eliminate drugs from the body. Those drug properties that determine, for example, its stability in the gut or its ease of uptake into the bloodstream, are therefore of central importance in drug development. In fact, many potentially useful drugs fail because of insufficient availability at the biological target site.This second edition of the gold standard for industrial research is thoroughly revised in line with current trends in the field, with all contributions extensively updated or rewritten. No other publication offers the same level of treatment on this crucial topic.In 22 chapters readers can benefit from the key working knowledge of today’s leading pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Roche. Drug developers from industry and academia present all the factors governing drug bioavailability, complete with practical examples and real-life data.Part I focuses on solubility and gastrointestinal absorption, while the second discusses in vitro and in vivo measurements of physicochemical properties, such as membrane permeability and solubility. Part III is devoted to metabolism and excretory mechanisms. The much revised and expanded Part IV surveys current in silico approaches to predict drug properties needed to estimate the bioavailability of any new drug candidate. The final part shows new drug development approaches as well as delivery strategies.Indispensable for all those working in the pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical and medicinal chemists, and toxicologists. |
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Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent from Within $25.83 When an employee leaves, there’s more at stake for your organization than just an open position that needs to be filled. Every company’s heart and soul—not to mention its bottom line—is dependent on the collective wisdom of its people. If you fail to plan for the sudden absence of those who have either been groomed to continue their ascent up the ladder—or those whose knowledge you simply can’t function without—consistent leadership and institutional memory can get lost in the shuffle. Every serious organization needs a succession plan. And now—as baby-boomers retire en masse and companies of every size and type feel the various effects of globalization, the economy, and other factors—it is more necessary than ever to be prepared for change. In this extensively updated fourth edition, Effective Succession Planning provides the tools you need to establish, revitalize, or revise your own succession planning and management (SP&M) program. You’ll learn how to: • Identify competencies and clarify organizational values for both planning and managing a succession program. • Plan for and quickly fill crucial vacancies at all levels from top management to sales, administrative, technical, and production positions. • Develop and retain top talent, building and preserving your organization’s intellectual capital. • Assess current needs and future resources for seamless succession planning. • Use the latest technology to organize and implement succession planning and management programs. Incorporating the results of two extensive new surveys, and including a Quick Start Guide to help begin immediate implementation—as well as a CD-ROM packed with assessments, checklists, customizable guides, and other practical tools—this essential resource reflects the latest trends and best practices in succession |
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Employee Opinion Questionnaires: 20 Ready-To-Use Surveys That Work [With CDROM] $95 If you”ve ever wanted to tap a ready-to-use questionnaire the same day you recognize your organization needs a survey, then help is finally at hand. Authors Paul and Kathy Connolly have designed a must-have collection of proven, reliable organizational surveys that anyone–from specialist human resources professionals to line managers and team leaders–can put to use immediately. Employee Opinion Questionnaires includes short, ready-to-use surveys organized into three groups: Use Issue-Focused Surveys to determine employee opinion on topics such as diversity, communications, and adaptability to change. Use Mission-Focused Surveys to gauge opinion on critical organizational issues, including employee alignment with mission, quality, ethics, and customer care. And use Event-Related Surveys for new hires, exit interviews, and assessing peoples” attitudes following training. |
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Employee Opinion Questionnaires: 20 Ready-to-Use Surveys That Work, with CD $95 Employee Opinion QuestionnairesIf you’ve ever wanted to tap a ready-to-use questionnaire the same day you recognize your organization needs a survey, then help is finally at hand. Authors Paul and Kathy Connolly have designed a must-have collection of proven, reliable organizational surveys that anyone—from specialist human resource professionals to line managers and team leaders—can put to use immediately. Employee Opinion Questionnaires includes short, ready-to-use surveys organized into three groups: Use Issue-Focused Surveys to determine employee opinion on topics such as diversity, communications, and adaptability to change. Use Mission-Focused Surveys to gauge opinion on critical organizational issues, including employee alignment with mission, quality, ethics, and customer care. And use Event-Related Surveys for new hires, exit interviews, and assessing peoples’ attitudes following training. The book contains a wealth of advice on selecting an appropriate survey, managing the survey process, and interpreting survey results. Learn how other organizations’ employees answer questions that employers most frequently ask, based on the authors’ Employee Feedback Database. Also, the book provides guidelines for maintaining confidentiality and anonymity and shows how to present results to all levels of your organization.Employee Opinion Questionnaires contains twenty surveys that can be used time and time again. Electronic versions of each survey are reproduced on the included CD-ROM, enabling you to conveniently print them straight from your desktop and even customize the surveys to suit your own individual or organizational needs.Praise for Employee Opinion Questionnaires”This manual is a gem! Whether you are preparing to do a first employee survey or seeking well-tested, probing questions to gather data on new organizational priorities, this book will not only save you time but will improve the quality of the data |
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Energy Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050 $99 As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of energy science. They each craft a roadmap for their sphere of development to 2050. In their entirety, the general and sub-group reports analyze the evolution and laws governing the development of science and technology, describe the decisive impact of science and technology on the modernization process, predict that the world is on the eve of an impending S&T revolution, and call for China to be fully prepared for this new round of S&T advancement. Based on the detailed study of the demands on S&T innovation in China’s modernization, the reports draw a framework for eight basic and strategic systems of socio-economic development with the support of science and technology, work out China’s S&T roadmaps for the relevant eight basic and strategic systems in line with China’s reality, further detail S&T initiatives of strategic importance to China’s modernization, and provide S&T decision-makers with comprehensive consultations for the development of S&T innovation consistent with China’s reality. Supported by illustrations and tables of data, the reports provide researchers, government officials and entrepreneurs with guidance concerning research directions, the planning process, and investment. Founded in 1949, the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the nation’s highest academic institution in natural sciences. Its major responsibilities are to conduct research in basic and technological sciences, to undertake nationwide integrated surveys on natural resources and ecological environment, to provide the country with scientific data and consultations for government’s decision-making, to undertake government-assigned projects with regard to key S&T problems in the process of socio-economic development, to initiate personnel |
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Examining the role of schooling in the HIV and AIDS pandemic: Disentangling schooling’s effect on infection, sexual behavior, and decision-making. $69 This dissertation is a response to the numerous studies that report on the relationship between education and health and that have called for an increased understanding of how education impacts thinking, reasoning, and problem solving and how these in turn impact health. This dissertation focuses on understanding what schooling uniquely does to influence risk taking and preventative strategies in the context of heterosexual transmission of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. This dissertation presents the results of three empirical studies that examine different aspects of the role of schooling on the HIV and AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. The research uses Demographic Health Surveys from 11 SSA countries with data collected in 4 relatively homogenous and remote villages in the Eastern region of Ghana on cognitive and decision-making abilities. The empirical studies yield data to test the effect of schooling on HIV infection, engagement in sexual behavior, mathematic ability, cognitive skills, and decision-making capacities related to the HIV and AIDS pandemic. This study presents the results of both logistic regression and structural equation modeling that examines hypotheses that link schooling with basic cognitive skill enhancement and how these relate to risk assessment and decision-making. This line of inquiry is a new approach to consider how schooling has such a wide impact on health behavior, a major social issue facing the future of numerous societies. This dissertation presents findings that extend existing lines of research of health and decision-making into a very different and important population (the non-schooled and low-schooled) in SSA. This dissertation also introduces the effect of schooling to enhance cognitive skills in the health behavior and decision-making paradigms. This analysis is a step in understanding how attending school protects an individual from HIV infection and engagement in protective behavior above and beyond the acquisition of |
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Finite Geometries $169 This is a graduate-level book aimed at experienced researchers as well as beginning graduate students in finite geometry, incidence geometry, design theory, coding theory and combinatorics. The 21 articles arise from the Fourth Isle of Thorns Conference on Finite Geometries, held in July 2000. The book contains new high-level results at the forefront of the field as well as authoritative surveys. The articles are written so that beginning graduate students can appreciate them. Among the surveys by the invited speakers are P.J. Cameron ‘Fixed Points and cycles’, C.E. Praeger ‘Implications of line-transitivity for designs’, B. Schmidt, ‘Exponent bounds’, which explains recent results on difference sets, and several papers with H. Van Maideghem as co-author on generalized polygons. The editors also contribute: A. Blokhuis, D. Jungnickel, and B. Schmidt ‘On a class of symmetric divisible designs which are almost projective planes’, and D. Luyckx and J.A. Thas discuss the geometry of the quadric in six dimensions. There is also a lengthy and complete survey by J.W.P. Hirschfeld and L. Storme ‘The packing problem in statistics, coding theory and finite projective spaces: update 2001′. Audience: Researchers as well as beginning graduate students in the areas of finite geometry, incidence geometry, design theory, coding theory and combinatorics will appreciate the surveys and original papers by leaders in these fields. |
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From Morality to Mental Health $18.74 Morality and mental health are now inseparably linked in our view of character. Alcoholics are sick, yet they are punished for drunk driving. Drug addicts are criminals, but their punishment can be court ordered therapy. The line between character flaws and personality disorders has becomefuzzy, with even the seven deadly sins seen as mental disorders. In addition to pathologizing wrong-doing, we also psychologize virtue; self-respect becomes self-esteem, integrity becomes psychological integration, and responsibility becomes maturity. Moral advice is now sought primarily frompsychologists and therapists rather than philosophers or theologians. In this wide-ranging, accessible book, Mike W. Martin asks: are we replacing morality with therapy, in potentially confused and dangerous ways, or are we creatively integrating morality and mental health? According to him, it’s a little bit of both. He surveys the ways in which morality and mentalhealth are related, touching on practical concerns like love and work, self-respect and self-fulfillment, guilt and depression, crime and violence, and addictions. Terming this integrative development the therapeutic trend in ethics, Martin uses examples from popular culture, various moralcontroversies, and draws on a line of thought that includes Plato, the Stoics, Freud, Nietzsche, and contemporary psychotherapeutic theories. Martin develops some interesting conclusions, among them that sound morality is indeed healthy, and that moral values are inevitably embedded in ourconceptions of mental health. In the end, he shows how both morality and mental health are inextricably intertwined in our pursuit of a meaningful life. Thisbook will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, as well as the general reader. |
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From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture $35 Morality and mental health are now inseparably linked in our view of character. Alcoholics are sick, yet they are punished for drunk driving. Drug addicts are criminals, but their punishment can be court ordered therapy. The line between character flaws and personality disorders has become fuzzy, with even the seven deadly sins seen as mental disorders. In addition to pathologizing wrong-doing, we also psychologize virtue; self-respect becomes self-esteem, integrity becomes psychological integration, and responsibility becomes maturity. Moral advice is now sought primarily from psychologists and therapists rather than philosophers or theologians. In this wide-ranging, accessible book, Mike W. Martin asks: are we replacing morality with therapy, in potentially confused and dangerous ways, or are we creatively integrating morality and mental health? According to him, it’s a little bit of both. He surveys the ways in which morality and mental health are related, touching on practical concerns like love and work, self-respect and self-fulfillment, guilt and depression, crime and violence, and addictions. Terming this integrative development "the therapeutic trend in ethics," Martin uses examples from popular culture, various moral controversies, and draws on a line of thought that includes Plato, the Stoics, Freud, Nietzsche, and contemporary psychotherapeutic theories. Martin develops some interesting conclusions, among them that sound morality is indeed healthy, and that moral values are inevitably embedded in our conceptions of mental health. In the end, he shows how both morality and mental health are inextricably intertwined in our pursuit of a meaningful life. This book will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists, as well as the general reader. |
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Geophysical Exploration for Archaeology: An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration $29.93 New – Original publisher: Lincoln, Neb.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archaeological Center, 1998. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)190789415 Subject: Prospecting — Geophysical methods. Excerpt: …Resistivity Surveys help you from confusing the different wires on the ground. It might also help if the clips had insulating plastic boots over them. Fig. B1 illustrates the procedures for operating this simple meter. In Step 1, a tape measure is stretched along the line of measurem |
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Geophysical Exploration for Archaeology: An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration $29.93 Used – Original publisher: Lincoln, Neb.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Midwest Archaeological Center, 1998. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)190789415 Subject: Prospecting — Geophysical methods. Excerpt: …Resistivity Surveys help you from confusing the different wires on the ground. It might also help if the clips had insulating plastic boots over them. Fig. B1 illustrates the procedures for operating this simple meter. In Step 1, a tape measure is stretched along the line of measure |
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George Condo: Mental States $24.6 New – Straddling the line between comedy and tragedy, the grotesque and the beautiful, George Condo’s rich pictorial inventions have made him one of the most inventive painters of his generation and one whose work has become increasingly influential. This book surveys Condo’s career from 1982 up to the present day, focusing on his portrait paintings but also including a selection of sculptural busts made in precious substances such as gold and bronze. It will be organised thematically exploring |
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Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires $9.62 For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is there consistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or can policy and the environment make a difference? How is happiness affected by poverty? By economic progress? Is happiness a viable objective for policy? This book is an attempt to answer these questions, based on research on the determinants of happiness in countries around the world, ranging from Peru and Russia to the U.S. and Afghanistan. The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research which is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being. The research finds surprising consistency in the determinants of happiness across levels of development. Yet there is still much debate over the relationship between happiness and income. The book explores the effects of many mediating factors in that relationship, ranging from macroeconomic trends and democracy to inequality and crime. It also reviews what we know about happiness and health and how that relationship varies according to income levels and health status. It concludes by discussing the potential–and the potential pitfalls–of using happiness surveys to contribute to better public policy. |
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Happiness Around the World: The paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires $24.95 For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is there consistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or can policy and the environment make a difference? How is happiness affected by poverty? By economic progress? Is happiness a viable objective for policy? This book is an attempt to answer these questions, based on research on the determinants of happiness in countries around the world, ranging from Peru and Russia to the U.S. and Afghanistan. The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research which is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being. The research finds surprising consistency in the determinants of happiness across levels of development. Yet there is still much debate over the relationship between happiness and income. The book explores the effects of many mediating factors in that relationship, ranging from macroeconomic trends and democracy to inequality and crime. It also reviews what we know about happiness and health and how that relationship varies according to income levels and health status. It concludes bydiscussing the potential—and the potential pitfalls—of using happiness surveys to contribute to better public policy. |
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Happiness around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires $12.75 For centuries the pursuit of happiness was the preserve of either the philosopher or the voluptuary and took second place to the basic need to survive on the one hand, and the pressure to conform to social conventions and morality on the other. More recently there is a burgeoning interest in the study of happiness, in the social sciences and in the media. Can we really answer the question what makes people happy? Is it really grounded in credible methods and data? Is there consistency in the determinants of happiness across countries and cultures? Are happiness levels innate to individuals or can policy and the environment make a difference? How is happiness affected by poverty? By economic progress? Is happiness a viable objective for policy? This book is an attempt to answer these questions, based on research on the determinants of happiness in countries around the world, ranging from Peru and Russia to the U.S. and Afghanistan. The book reviews the theory and concepts of happiness, explaining how these concepts underpin a line of research which is both an attempt to understand the determinants of happiness and a tool for understanding the effects of a host of phenomena on human well being. The research finds surprising consistency in the determinants of happiness across levels of development. Yet there is still much debate over the relationship between happiness and income. The book explores the effects of many mediating factors in that relationship, ranging from macroeconomic trends and democracy to inequality and crime. It also reviews what we know about happiness and health and how that relationship varies according to income levels and health status. It concludes by discussing the potential—and the potential pitfalls—of using happiness surveys to contribute to better public policy. |
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Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences $2445.89 This milestone extensive work combines the essentials of history – biography, chronology, political and economic background – with the observations, theories, principles, laws and equations that constitute the specifics of science.The 5800-page Encyclopedia arises from the conviction that the optimal perspective on science is through the lens of history, setting aside traditional divisions of discipline and specialty, and rising above geopolitical boundaries. Reaching from 4,200 BCE to the 21st century CE, the Encyclopedia relates (as the author himself puts it) “not only who did it and when it was done but also precisely what was done.”The author, Ari Ben-Menahem, surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering 2070 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors, who left their mark on the history of science and technology. The span of coverage is all-encompassing: mathematics, philosophy, logic, physical and environmental sciences (including physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth and space sciences and cosmology), life sciences (biology, medicine, physiology, botany, zoology and biochemistry), associated engineering disciplines, and the social sciences (among them economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and more).The six-volume Encyclopedia also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy, plus useful tables, figures and photos, and 20 ‘Science Progress Reports’ detailing scientific setbacks. Interspersed throughout are quotations, gathered from the wit and wisdom of sages, savants and scholars throughout the ages from antiquity to modern times. |
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Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories $10.9 Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, “Hunkies” or “Bohunks,” or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no-account “Honyockers.” And to Honyockers like David Mogen’s people, who built lives in the face of great difficulty and prejudice, the name came to bear all the meaning and power of their hard-won home place. It is this sense of place, of tenacious if uneasy belonging, that David Mogen traces through his family history in Honyocker Dreams. Beginning with his father’s reminiscences as he surveys the Montana landscape, Mogen weaves a narrative of memory and history, of the dreams and disappointments of working-class farmers, cowboys, and miners among his ancestors, and of the post-frontier world of Indian reservations and farming towns that endure on the Montana “Hi-Line,” the flat expanse of Big Sky country that lies hard against the Canadian border east of the Rockies. From the frontier world of his parents and pioneer ancestors to the boom-and-bust tales about growing up in the small-town world of his own Montana childhood in the 1950s, Mogen travels full circle to recent journeys that reveal the paradoxical burdens and strengths of his father’s cowboy legacy as well as the hidden pain and healing power of his mother’s homesteading heritage. His is a journey that opens a window on a unique but little-known region of Montana and the West. |
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Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories $21.95 Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, “Hunkies” or “Bohunks,” or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no-account “Honyockers.” And to Honyockers like David Mogen’s people, who built lives in the face of great difficulty and prejudice, the name came to bear all the meaning and power of their hard-won home place. It is this sense of place, of tenacious if uneasy belonging, that David Mogen traces through his family history in Honyocker Dreams. Beginning with his father’s reminiscences as he surveys the Montana landscape, Mogen weaves a narrative of memory and history, of the dreams and disappointments of working-class farmers, cowboys, and miners among his ancestors, and of the post-frontier world of Indian reservations and farming towns that endure on the Montana “Hi-Line,” the flat expanse of Big Sky country that lies hard against the Canadian border east of the Rockies. From the frontier world of his parents and pioneer ancestors to the boom-and-bust tales about growing up in the small-town world of his own Montana childhood in the 1950s, Mogen travels full circle to recent journeys that reveal the paradoxical burdens and strengths of his father’s cowboy legacy as well as the hidden pain and healing power of his mother’s homesteading heritage. His is a journey that opens a window on a unique but little-known region of Montana and the West. |
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How to Read a Nautical Chart : A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations, and Data Displayed on Nautical Charts $21 “Calder has done it again. This comprehensive and, as importantly, readable book on navigation should be required on all boats.”—Peter Nielsen, editor, SAIL magazine”This is a wonderful chart companion: an intriguing investigation of chart development combined with practical, hands-on data on how to really put a chart to use.”—Tim Queeney, editor, Ocean NavigatorCharts, whether paper or electronic, are your most fundamental navigational tool. Using them to your best advantage requires a thorough understanding of the symbols and abbreviations and an awareness of the limits of accuracy in positions and soundings.Did you know, for example, that hydrographic standards used to collect the majority of data on modern charts are considerably less accurate than GPS position fixes? That the majority of soundings still come from lead-line surveys? That a wreck symbol surrounded by a dotted circle means it is considered dangerous? That there are four different kinds of rock symbols, each with a different meaning? And that the definition of “danger” has changed over time and will depend on the age of your charts?In How to Read a Nautical Chart, trusted boating authority Nigel Calder answers these and hundreds of other questions clearly and concisely. He covers in detail:Fundamental chartmaking concepts in plain language The limits of accuracy of modern charts (paper and electronic) Dozens of full-scale illustrations from actual charts Expanded versions of U.S., British, and international chart symbology descriptions contained in NOAA’s Chart No. 1, the British Admiralty’s Chart 5011, and the IHO’s INT-1 And much more essential information designed to improve vital chart-reading skills How to Read a Nautical Chart should be on every navigator’s bookshelf.”Nigel’s enthusiasm and insight turn a mundane chart into a map of buried treasure. Every navigator |
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How to Read a Nautical Chart: A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations, and Data Displayed on Nautical Charts $8.95 “Calder has done it again. This comprehensive and, as importantly, readable book on navigation should be required on all boats.”—Peter Nielsen, editor, SAIL magazine”This is a wonderful chart companion: an intriguing investigation of chart development combined with practical, hands-on data on how to really put a chart to use.”—Tim Queeney, editor, Ocean Navigator Charts, whether paper or electronic, are your most fundamental navigational tool. Using them to your best advantage requires a thorough understanding of the symbols and abbreviations and an awareness of the limits of accuracy in positions and soundings.Did you know, for example, that hydrographic standards used to collect the majority of data on modern charts are considerably less accurate than GPS position fixes? That the majority of soundings still come from lead-line surveys? That a wreck symbol surrounded by a dotted circle means it is considered dangerous? That there are four different kinds of rock symbols, each with a different meaning? And that the definition of “danger” has changed over time and will depend on the age of your charts? In How to Read a Nautical Chart, trusted boating authority Nigel Calder answers these and hundreds of other questions clearly and concisely. He covers in detail:Fundamental chartmaking concepts in plain languageThe limits of accuracy of modern charts (paper and electronic)Dozens of full-scale illustrations from actual chartsExpanded versions of U.S., British, and international chart symbology descriptions contained in NOAA’s Chart No. 1, the British Admiralty’s Chart 5011, and the IHO’s INT-1And much more essential information designed to improve vital chart-reading skills How to Read a Nautical Chart should be on every navigator’s bookshelf.”Nigel’s enthusiasm and insight turn a mundane chart into a map of buried treasure. Every navigator should stow a copy in the chart table.”—Paul Gelder, |
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In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record $17.37 68 line illustrations, 82 b/w photographsMany consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the “New Archaeology” changed the course of the field as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. In this book, first published nearly two decades ago, Binford provided students and general readers with an introduction to his challenging and provocative ideas about understanding the human past. Now available again, this important component of Binford’s intellectual legacy will convey the drama and intellectual excitement of contemporary archaeology to a new generation of archaeologists and others interested in the field. Throughout the book, Binford questions old ideas and proposes new theories based on his comparative archaeological and ethnographic research in North America, Europe, South Africa, and Australia. A new afterword by Binford surveys the direction archaeology has taken since the publication of this book and shares his hopes for the future of the discipline. |
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Inside-Out Marketing; Building Restaurant Volume Wihtout Breaking Your Budget $272.39 Increase sales by not competing? No, this isn’t some sort of New Age marketing mysticism. It’s part of an amazingly successful, commonsense approach to restaurant marketing that author Bill Marvin call guest-based marketing. What exactly does guest-based mean? It’s really pretty simple. The dynamic marketing approach described in this book is based on the notion that in the restaurant business, customer satisfaction is the real bottom line, and that any successful sales-building effort begins on the floor with the guests you’ve already won. In Guest-Based Marketing you won’t find clever new ways to squander your precious resources trying to beat the competition and steal their customers away. You will find sales-boosting techniques that will help you to motivate your customers to keep coming back for more, even if it means driving an extra mile or two. Using numerous case studies and real-life anecdotes, Marvin describes proven techniques to help you identify and build on your strengths, build customer loyalty, increase the number of visits customers make, and get your customers to spread the word and attract new customers. Marvin teaches you how to launch an effective customer loyalty program and use an array of incentives to build sales. He helps you hone your all-important people skills. You’ll learn techniques for remembering guests’ names, as well as their individual likes and dislikes. He shows you how to conduct customer surveys and make the best use of the information you gather. |
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Intertextuality, Allusion, and Quotation: An International Bibliography of Critical Studies $94.51 This bibliography offers a compilation of more than 2000 critical studies that deal not only with the relatively new concept of intertextuality and its predominantly poststructuralist implications, but also with the time-honored concepts of allusion and quotation, which have seen a remarkable renaissance in the wake of intertextual enthusiasm. The first comprehensive work of its kind, this volume goes beyond earlier references, both in scope and quantity, to document scholarly achievements in intertextual research and to serve as a guide to previously unexplored topics. In following such scholars as Gerard Genette, Julia Kristeva, and Wolf Schmid, who consider allusion and quotation prominent manifestations of intertextuality to be perceived by the reader on the text’s surface, Hebel maintains that research in these two concepts can be integrated into the more radical and far-reaching theory of intertextuality, and that the yet unsolved question of where to draw a distinct line between them deserves further analysis. The book is organized in three parts: the extensive introduction surveys the heterogeneous field of intertextual studies, provides a first insight into the history and development of the critical concepts under examination, and points to important theoretical sources and exemplary analyses of individual writers or specific aspects. The work is designed not only to direct newcomers through the intricacies of intertextual criticism, but to supply more advanced scholars with further inspiration. Extensive indexing provides easy access, and the book will prove to be an invaluable resource in university and research libraries, and in language and literature departments in thehumanities. |
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Invertebrate Surveys for Conservation $126.65 Invertebrates are the major energy conduits and agents of nutrient and material recycling in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems throughout the world, and the sustainability of the earth’s life-support systems depends on their well-being. Despite this, conservation managers andpractitioners still know very little about invertebrate biology, or how to study and survey invertebrates adequately in the field. Invertebrate Surveys for Conservation is a comprehensive guide to the ecological methods used to survey invertebrate animals in terrestrial, freshwater, and marineenvironments. It describes how to select particular taxonomic groups for study, how to collect and analyze samples, and how to set priorities for protection in the face of limited resources. Line drawings of apparatus, tables of survey examples and methods of specimen treatment and sample analysisare augmented by a substantial list of references to provide and introduction to practical invertebrate conservation. This book will be an essential tool for anyone involved in conservation biology or ecology, including students and researchers, conservation practitioners, and environmentalconsultants. |
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Islands Of India $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: New Moore / South Talpatti – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The island was situated only 2 kilometers from the mouth of the Hariabhanga River. The emergence of the island was discovered by an American satellite in 1974 that showed the island to have an area of 2,500 sq meters (27,000 sq ft). Later, various remote sensing surveys showed that the island had expanded gradually to an area of about 10,000 sq meters (110,000 sq ft) at low tide, including a number of ordinarily submerged shoals. The island at low tide was, at most, about 3.5 km in length and 3 km in width. The highest elevation of the island never exceeded two meters above sea level. The island was located in the coastal, shallow Bay of Bengal immediately south of the international border river, the Hariabhanga, flowing between Satkhira district of Bangladesh and the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. Co-ordinates are 21°3700N 89°0830E. It is now under the waves of the Bay of Bengal. The island was claimed by both Bangladesh and India, although neither country established any permanent settlement there because of the island’s geological instability based on silt deposits in a delta which floods every year. India had reportedly hoisted the Indian flag on the island in 1981 and established a temporary base of Border Security Forces (BSF), regularly visiting with naval gunships. According to the Radcliffe Award (establishing the East Pakistan and India boundary in 1947), the ‘mid-channel flow’ principle or Thalweg doctrine is generally recognized as the international boundary on river borders between the two countries. The middle line of the mid-channel flow (Thalweg) of the Hariabhanga River established the original boundary between the states. Had the island not di… More: |
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Italian Renaissance Art $47.32 Focusing on select examples of Italian art spanning roughly four hundred years, Italian Renaissance Art: A Sourcebook explores contextual, explanatory information that is rarely part of general surveys of the period. Artists” chronologies are at the core of this text providing overviews of artists” careers with timelines of their activities and commentary on significant works. The book also uniquely incorporates numerous drawings, diagrams, and line arts as a means of allowing the reader to develop a fuller idea of the art of the period, Supporting the artists” chronologies are chapters devoted to historical notes and a glossary of terms, and concluding chapters offer in-depth information on select examples of Renaissance patrons and cities. |
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Italian Renaissance Art: A Sourcebook $47.2 Focusing on select examples of Italian art spanning roughly four hundred years, Italian Renaissance Art: A Sourcebook explores contextual, explanatory information that is rarely part of general surveys of the period. Artists’ chronologies are at the core of this text providing overviews of artists’ careers with timelines of their activities and commentary on significant works. The book also uniquely incorporates numerous drawings, diagrams, and line arts as a means of allowing the reader to develop a fuller idea of the art of the period, Supporting the artists’ chronologies are chapters devoted to historical notes and a glossary of terms, and concluding chapters offer in–depth information on select examples of Renaissance patrons and cities. |
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Italian Renaissance Art: A Sourcebook $47.2 Focusing on select examples of Italian art spanning roughly four hundred years, Italian Renaissance Art: A Sourcebook explores contextual, explanatory information that is rarely part of general surveys of the period. Artists’ chronologies are at the core of this text providing overviews of artists’ careers with timelines of their activities and commentary on significant works. The book also uniquely incorporates numerous drawings, diagrams, and line arts as a means of allowing the reader to develop a fuller idea of the art of the period, Supporting the artists’ chronologies are chapters devoted to historical notes and a glossary of terms, and concluding chapters offer in–depth information on select examples of Renaissance patrons and cities. |
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KV 5 $28.19 The discovery in 1995 that a long-ignored doorway in the Valley of the Kings was actually the entrance to the largest tomb ever found in Egypt made headlines around the world. Called KV5, it contains over 150 corridors and chambers, and was used as a family mausoleum forseveral sons of the New Kingdom pharaoh, Ramesses II. The first edition of this preliminary report was the first comprehensive, technical publication on the work of the Theban Mapping Project in the tomb; it has now been revised and expanded to take account of the latestdiscoveries and analyses. It includes detailed archaeological and architectural studies, epigraphic surveys, object and pottery descriptions, discussions of conservation work, and extensive reports on the site”s geology, hydrology, mineralogy, and geotechnical engineering.Copiously illustrated with photographs and line drawings, KV5 is the essential source for the study of this fascinating and important tomb. |
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Learning strategies, motivation, and self-reported academic outcomes of students enrolled in Web-based coursework. $69 The arrival of the Internet and the web browser has led to a worldwide explosion of web-based virtual classes as a form of instructional delivery systems among institutions of higher education (Moore & Kearsley, 2005). Colleges and universities are beginning to offer classes and in some instances complete programs using the Internet. However, research on student motivation and outcomes is mixed. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student self-regulation, self-efficacy, motivation toward web-based coursework, self-reported course outcomes, and reasons for enrolling in web-based courses on student retention in web-based courses. A web-based survey was developed by the researcher along with The Motivation Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), developed by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, and McKeachie (1991). A total of 21 community college students from a possible sample of 189 submitted their completed surveys for a response rate of 11.6%. The findings of the study indicated that student motivation was not statistically significantly correlated with self-reported grade point average. Reasons for taking on-line courses were not related to self-reported grade point average. Students who had completed fewer credit hours thought that on-line courses could enhance their skills for the future and would be easier than traditional classes. A positive correlation was found between the number of credit hours a student was taking in the present semester was associated with students who indicated that the on-line course format was the only one available. The study was limited to one community college located in a county with a depressed economy. The small number of students who participated in the study may have limited the generalizability to all students enrolled in online courses at this college in particular and to students in online classes in other community colleges. Using this exploratory study, further research is needed with a larger, |
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Learning strategies, motivation, and self-reported academic outcomes of students enrolled in Web-based coursework. $49.99 The arrival of the Internet and the web browser has led to a worldwide explosion of web-based virtual classes as a form of instructional delivery systems among institutions of higher education (Moore & Kearsley, 2005). Colleges and universities are beginning to offer classes and in some instances complete programs using the Internet. However, research on student motivation and outcomes is mixed. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between student self-regulation, self-efficacy, motivation toward web-based coursework, self-reported course outcomes, and reasons for enrolling in web-based courses on student retention in web-based courses.;A web-based survey was developed by the researcher along with The Motivation Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), developed by Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, and McKeachie (1991). A total of 21 community college students from a possible sample of 189 submitted their completed surveys for a response rate of 11.6%.;The findings of the study indicated that student motivation was not statistically significantly correlated with self-reported grade point average. Reasons for taking on-line courses were not related to self-reported grade point average. Students who had completed fewer credit hours thought that on-line courses could enhance their skills for the future and would be easier than traditional classes. A positive correlation was found between the number of credit hours a student was taking in the present semester was associated with students who indicated that the on-line course format was the only one available.;The study was limited to one community college located in a county with a depressed economy. The small number of students who participated in the study may have limited the generalizability to all students enrolled in online courses at this college in particular and to students in online classes in other community colleges. Using this exploratory study, further research is needed with a larger, |
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Logo Recognition: Theory and Practice $99.95 Used by companies, organizations, and even individuals to promote recognition of their brand, logos can also act as a valuable means of identifying the source of a document. E-business applications can retrieve and catalog products according to their logos. Governmental agencies can easily inspect goods using smart mobile devices that use logo recognition techniques. However, because logos are two-dimensional shapes of varying complexity, the recognition process can be challenging. Although promising results have been found for clean logos, they have not been as robust for noisy logos. Logo Recognition: Theory and Practice is the first book to focus on logo recognition, especially under noisy conditions. Beginning with an introduction to fundamental concepts and methods in pattern and shape recognition, it surveys advances in logo recognition. The authors also propose a new logo recognition system that can be used under adverse conditions such as broken lines, added noise, and occlusion. The proposed system introduces a novel polygonal approximation, a robust indexing scheme, and a new Line Segment Hausdorff Distance (LHD) matching method that can handle more distortion and transformation types than previous techniques. In the first stage, raw logos are transformed into normalized line segment maps. In the second stage, effective line pattern features are used to index the database in order to generate a moderate number of likely models. In the third stage, an improved LHD measure screens and generates the best matches. A comprehensive overview of logo recognition, the book also presents successful applications of the technology and suggests directions for future research. |
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Marketing Research Kit For Dummies $29.99 Your hands-on guide to getting and putting marketing data to workWhen money is tight and everything is on the line, you need to make sure you’ve done your homework. You need Marketing Research Kit For Dummies. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a small business owner, or a marketer in a large organization, this powerful resource provides you with the hands-on tools you need to identify, obtain, record, and analyze marketing data.Make better business decisions — get the lowdown on marketing research and learn what it can do for you to start making better business decisions todaySurvey your way to success — find out how different types of surveys can (and can’t) work for you and get do’s and don’ts for the best ways to conduct themIt’s a method (not madness!) — discover how secondary data (like online sources and sites with links to multiple sources) can be used in your marketing researchAnalyze this — get the tools and information you need to collect, analyze, and report your dataBonus DVD IncludesSample questionnaires, checklists, focus group scripts, and research reportsVideos of a complete focus group session and a results presentationExcel-based tools and a step-by-step guide to various data-analysis methodsSee the DVD appendix for details and complete system requirements.Open the book and find:How marketing research can (and can’t) help youQuestions to ask when gathering dataStrategies for analyzing resultsWhen to call in outside expertiseThe strengths and weaknesses of surveysTips for avoiding errors in survey researchExamples of good (and bad) research questionsGuidelines for setting up your own data analysisLearn to:Design surveys and questionnairesIdentify, obtain, record, and analyze marketing dataImprove existing products and servicesUse the forms, templates, checklists, and video |
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Marketing Services: Competing Through Quality $9.37 New – Drawing on their current research and surveys of senior executives and scholars, the authors develop a model for understanding the interrelationship between quality and marketing in services, and offer practical insight on what needs to be done to improve services marketing, and how to do it. A carefully researched and refreshingly original book accessible to both academics and executives. 10 line drawings. |
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Marketing Services: Competing Through Quality $7.14 New – Drawing on their current research and surveys of senior executives and scholars, the authors develop a model for understanding the interrelationship between quality and marketing in services, and offer practical insight on what needs to be done to improve services marketing, and how to do it. A carefully researched and refreshingly original book accessible to both academics and executives. 10 line drawings. |
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Marketing Services: Competing Through Quality $0.99 Drawing on their current research and surveys of senior executives and scholars, the authors develop a model for understanding the interrelationship between quality and marketing in services, and offer practical insight on what needs to be done to improve services marketing, and how to do it. A carefully researched and refreshingly original book accessible to both academics and executives. 10 line drawings. |
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Middlesex $4.25 Few people know much about Middlesex; it is commonly thought of as one large and featureless suburb. Yet it has a history of great interest, crowded with important events and famous characters, from Julius Caesar at Brentford to Winston Churchill at Harrow. Its history also includes minor curiosities of the past—the devil of Edmonton, the witch of Finchley, the miser of Harrow Weald, the highwaymen of Hounslow Heath—amid the varied incidents of local life in places that are now London dormitories. First published in 1953, at the time this book was the most comprehensive history and description of an English county ever attempted in a single volume. Its first part describes the county’s natural situation and its earliest history and surveys its economic life, in particular its almost vanished agriculture and its modern industrial development. There are chapters on particular aspects of Middlesex’s history, inhabitants, and buildings.  The second part—virtually a book in itself—is a lively gazetteer of the places in contemporary Middlesex, from Acton to Yiewsley. The whole work is fully indexed and referenced, and includes tables of population and a detailed bibliography (both updated for this edition), line maps, diagrams, and 48 pages of superb photographs. Michael Robbins had a lifelong love of the county of his birth, and tramped many miles along Middlesex roads while researching and writing this book; he believed there was no other way of getting to know the county. It remains the standard work on the local history of the county—a book for all who know and love Middlesex. |
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Minnesota’s Boundary with Canada: Its Evolution Since 1783 $28.79 New – The boundary between the U.S. and Canada is far more than a line on a map or a demarcation on the ground. In a broad sense, it represents the aspirations, successes, frustrations, failures, and compromises of the two largest countries on the North American continent. Behind this unfortified boundary lie the negotiations, surveys, and intrigue leading to the final establishment of this international border that had its beginnings in the eighteenth century. |
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Minnesotas Boundary with Canada: Its Evolution Since 1783 $27.94 Used – The boundary between the U.S. and Canada is far more than a line on a map or a demarcation on the ground. In a broad sense, it represents the aspirations, successes, frustrations, failures, and compromises of the two largest countries on the North American continent. Behind this unfortified boundary lie the negotiations, surveys, and intrigue leading to the final establishment of this international border that had its beginnings in the eighteenth century. |
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Minnesotas Boundary with Canada: Its Evolution Since 1783 $8.61 Used – The boundary between the U.S. and Canada is far more than a line on a map or a demarcation on the ground. In a broad sense, it represents the aspirations, successes, frustrations, failures, and compromises of the two largest countries on the North American continent. Behind this unfortified boundary lie the negotiations, surveys, and intrigue leading to the final establishment of this international border that had its beginnings in the eighteenth century. |
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Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies $21.25 New – Once a society embarks on industrialization, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to dimishing differences in gender roles, usually appear. Postmodern values then bring even more societal changes, including democratic institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. In support of these statements, this book draws on the World Values Surveys, a unique statistical database. 95 line illus. 30 tables. |
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Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies $12.32 Used – Once a society embarks on industrialization, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to dimishing differences in gender roles, usually appear. Postmodern values then bring even more societal changes, including democratic institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. In support of these statements, this book draws on the World Values Surveys, a unique statistical database. 95 line illus. 30 tables. |
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Motivations of Environmental Volunteers: A Cross Cultural Comparison $56.57 New – Working on-site with disaster relief, coastalcleanups on two oceans, interviews, in-person and on line surveys from Taiwan and Canada were extensively done to fully compare unique emerging themes in the environment and volunteering. Mandarin Chinese and English participant comments are available, while presentations in Australia and Singapore helped to fully develop this volunteering sector research. Initially, casual weekend participation with a volunteer group of quite committed flagship |
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Motivations of Environmental Volunteers: A Cross Cultural Comparison $56.57 Used – Working on-site with disaster relief, coastalcleanups on two oceans, interviews, in-person and on line surveys from Taiwan and Canada were extensively done to fully compare unique emerging themes in the environment and volunteering. Mandarin Chinese and English participant comments are available, while presentations in Australia and Singapore helped to fully develop this volunteering sector research. Initially, casual weekend participation with a volunteer group of quite committed flagshi |
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Mountains and plains the ecology of Wyoming landscapes $8.94 Used – The Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the intermountain basins in Wyoming and adjacent states contain a rich diversity of plant and animal life. Knight, an eminent ecologist, presents the abundance of this natural environment in a detailed study, which includes over 180 illustrations, maps and line drawings. The introduction surveys the diverse environments in the region and their geologic history. Subsequent chapters focus on riversides, lowland plains and basins, foothills and moun |
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Naming New York: Manhattan Places and How They Got Their Names $34.99 New York is the oldest continually occupied city in America, yet its rich history is largely obscured by development. New Yorkers are surrounded by hundreds of place names, from those that survive from Manhattan’s earliest days as a Dutch trading post to those that reflect the city’s rich colonial, African and immigrant heritage. They provide a veritable encyclopedia of the city’s history. Buildings may come and go, but place names are surprisingly durable.Naming New York is a comprehensive compilation and explanation of the names of Manhattan’s streets, alleys, avenues, plazas, parks and corners. It surveys names currently in use and includes the oldest and the newest honorific “add-on” names, from Astor Place to Yitzak Rabin Way.Whether you’re a history or trivia buff, tourist, or just fascinated by place names, learning about the origins of these mostly unexamined sources enriches one’s experience of the city, and transforms a simple neighborhood errand into a trip through time.For example:Bowery: In the 17th century, Dutch farms known as “bowerij” were laid out in this section of Manhattan along the path of an old Indian trail. Known since that time as the Bowery, the thoroughfare became the first section of the Post Road from New York City to Boston.Houston Street: For William Houstoun, 1757-1812, of a prominent Georgia family, who married a daughter of Manhattan landowner Nicholas Bayard III. The Georgia provenance of the name accounts for its pronunciation and spelling both of which distinguish it from the Texas city.Wall Street: Follows the line of the city wall that the Dutch erected in 1653 across the northern perimeter of New Amsterdam to protect against attack from the British in New England. |
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Navigating Interracial Borders $26 “One of the best books written about interracial relationships to date. . . . Childs offers a sophisticated and insightful analysis of the social and ideological context of black-white interracial relationships.” –Heather Dalmage, author of Tripping on the Color Line”A pioneering project that thoroughly analyzes interracial marriage in contemporary America.” –Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and The Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United StatesIs love color-blind, or at least becoming increasingly so? Today’s popular rhetoric and evidence of more interracial couples than ever might suggest that it is. But is it the idea of racially mixed relationships that we are growing to accept or is it the reality? What is the actual experience of individuals in these partnerships as they navigate their way through public spheres and intermingle in small, close-knit communities? In Navigating Interracial Borders, Erica Chito Childs explores the social world of black-white interracial couples and examines the ways that collective attitudes shape private relationships. Drawing on personal accounts, in-depth interviews, focus group responses, and cultural analysis of media sources, she provides compelling evidence that sizable opposition still exists toward black-white unions. Disapproval is merely being expressed in more subtle, color-blind terms. Childs reveals that frequently the same individuals who attest in surveys that they approve of interracial dating will also list various reasons why they and their families wouldn’t, shouldn’t, and couldn’t marry someone of another race. Even college students, who are heralded as racially tolerant and open-minded, do not view interracial couples as acceptable when those partnerships move beyond the point of casual dating. Popular films, Internet images, and pornography also continue to reinforce the idea that sexual relations between blacks and whites are |
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Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores $50 Presented in a straightforward and readable style, Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores is a comprehensive guide for wildlife researchers who seek to conduct carnivore surveys using the most up-to-date scientific approaches. Twenty-five experts from across North America discuss strategies for implementing surveys across a broad range of habitats, providing input on survey design, sample collection, DNA and endocrine analyses, and data analysis. Photographs from the field, line drawings, and detailed case studies further illustrate the on-the-ground application of the survey methods discussed. |
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Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores $50 Presented in a straightforward and readable style, Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores is a comprehensive guide for wildlife researchers who seek to conduct carnivore surveys using the most up-to-date scientific approaches. Twenty-five experts from across North America discuss strategies for implementing surveys across a broad range of habitats, providing input on survey design, sample collection, DNA and endocrine analyses, and data analysis. Photographs from the field, line drawings, and detailed case studies further illustrate the on-the-ground application of the survey methods discussed. |
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Novels Into Film: The Encyclopedia of Movies Adapted from Books $5.86 Used – Spanning comedy, drama, film noir, science fiction, westerns, action, suspense, and children’s literature, NOVELS INTO FILM surveys film adaptations of novels with insightful commentary and meticulous detail. An abridged and updated edition of Facts On File’s highly praised ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NOVELS INTO FILM, the book includes over 80 film stills and line art drawings of writers and directors. More than 100 A-to-Z entries cover both popular American and foreign films, from such classic work |
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On The White Pass Pay-Roll $18.85 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II CONSTRUCTION OF FIRST SECTION When our Surveyors reached Skaguay in May, 1898, they were dumped ashore, like everybody else, on a gravel flat, which filled the narrow valley between two snow-clad mountain ranges towering six or seven thousand feet above their heads. The gravel flat was called Skaguay and already overcrowded with human beings living under the conditions described in the previous chapter. Our men with difficulty found room to pitch their tents and establish themselves. All they had to do was to find the best way through those mountains to Lake Bennett, and to find it “quick.” Except the trail, the entire country was a wilderness of steep mountains, averaging higher than Mont Blanc does above the surrounding valley levels. The sides of these mountains were so thickly timbered to the snow line with small spruce that half a mile an hour was good progress for an active man, and of course no levels could be run or preliminary surveys made without clearing the line of sight. The densest ignorance prevailed as to the topography of the country. People knew where the White Pass was, and that was all. (Some of them didn’t know this and strayed into “False Pass.”) The relations of the mountains to one another in a range or where the waters in the streams had their source, no one knew or cared. Yet our men had not only to find a way through this 40 miles of mountain wilderness for our locomotives, but it was important to find the best way, and to find it “mighty sudden.” Fivesurveying parties took to the hills and vanished for weeks, and in the end we had five complete surveys covering both sides of the Skaguay River and of the White Pass as far as the Summit. The distance as the crow flies is only 14 miles from the Summit to the sea, but making the most |
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Orchids $0.62 Used – An updated edition of the popular primer that has served to introduce thousands of hobbyists to the pleasures of orchid growing. It includes useful sections on pets and diseases, cultivation and propagation and surveys the most popular genera, species and hybrids for both greenhouse and windowsill growers. 57 color photos, 18 line drawings. |
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Overcoming Bladder Disorders: Compassionate, Authoritative, Medical and Self-Help Solutions for $9.34 New – A practical guide for the millions who suffer from chronic urological disorders. This fact-filled guide draws on the latest research, surveys, and first-person accounts to provide the most up-to-date information available on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of these widespread but often misunderstood conditions. 18 line illustrations. |
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Pacific Avenue $29.36 New – On June 13th 1886 Lauchlin Hamilton the CPR surveyor assigned to lay out the city took a crew out to cut the first line from the inlet to the creek. One of the crew, his brother in law, became lost in the heavy forest among the gigantic cedars. Pacific Avenue is his story. The language of Pacific Avenue–sightings, soundings and surveys of what is constructed along the lines that make the city and between the lines of the poem–is a peninsula at once covered with trees and cleared of those |
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Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia $18.95 The idea of jihad is central to Islamic faith and ethics, and yet its meanings have been highly contested over time. They have ranged from the philosophical struggle to live an ethical life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam. Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Ayesha Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history.Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia. She reveals how key innovations in modern Islamic thought resulted from historical imperatives. The social and political scene in India before, during, and after British colonial rule forms the main backdrop. We experience the jihad as armed warfare waged by Sayyid Ahmad of Rai Bareilly between 1826 and 1831, the calls to jihad in the great rebellion of 1857, the fusion of jihad with a strand of anti-colonial nationalism in the early twentieth century, and the contemporary politics of self-styled jihadis in Pakistan, waging war to liberate co-religionists in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Partisans of Allah surveys this rich and tumultuous history of South Asian Muslims and its critical contribution to the intellectual development of the key concept of jihad. Analyzing the complex interplay of ethics and politics in Muslim history, the author effectively demonstrates the preeminent role of jihad in the Muslim faith today. |
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line $17 Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay “the best and brightest of his generation.” But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada King, only on his deathbed.Martha A. Sandweiss, a noted historian of the American West, is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal from the public eye. She reveals the complexity of a man who while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American “race,” an amalgam of… |
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line $13.99 Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay “the best and brightest of his generation.” But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada King, only on his deathbed.Martha A. Sandweiss, a noted historian of the American West, is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal from the public eye. She reveals the complexity of a man who while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American “race,” an amalgam of… |
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line $23.22 Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was named by John Hay “the best and brightest of his generation.” But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada King, only on his deathbed.Martha A. Sandweiss, a noted historian of the American West, is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal from the public eye. She reveals the complexity of a man who while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American “race,” an amalgam of… |
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Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys $10.95 The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every TimeGenerating honest, no-nonsense feedback through well-written surveys is the first step to dramatically increasing employee engagement, commitment, loyalty–and your company’s bottom line.Perfect Phrases for Writing Employee Surveys provides the tools for crafting precisely phrased surveys to deliver accurate information, so you can adjust your organization’s practices accordingly. Inside are hundreds of words, phrases, and examples that remove the guesswork from an otherwise daunting process. This handy, time-saving guide helps you write surveys that measure:• Employee Engagement• Leadership and Management• Company Values and Ethics• Organizational Culture• Satisfaction with Work Environment• Career DevelopmentJohn Kador is the author of several McGraw-Hill titles, including 301 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview and The Manager’s Book of Questions.Katherine J. Armstrong is a corporate communications consultant and business book editor. |
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Pipe line corrosion and cathodic protection : a practical manual for corrosion engineers, technicians, and field personnel $52.13 New – This update of Marshall Parker’s classic text contains the latest “hands-on” information for taking measurements and making the calculations necessary for cathodic protection of buried pipe lines. Essentially a practical field manual for corrosion technicians and engineers, it is a simple and direct introduction to the fundamentals of a complex subject. The contents cover soil resistivity surveys, potential surveys, line currents, current requirement surveys, rectifier systems for coated l |
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Railway Property $19.55 New – Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and estimates of expense, and lay the whole before the Board of Directors, with his opinion as to the most elegible route. In the early history of our railways this was |
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Railway Property $16.46 New – Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and |
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Railway Property $19.51 New – Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and estimates of expense, and lay the whole before the Board of Directors, with his opinion as to the most elegible route. In the early history of our railways this was |
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Railway Property $19.55 Used – Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and estimates of expense, and lay the whole before the Board of Directors, with his opinion as to the most elegible route. In the early history of our railways this wa |
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Railway Property $16.46 Used – Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and estimates of expense, and lay the whole before the Board of Directors, with his opinion as to the most elegible route. In the early history of our railways this wa |
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Railway Property $19.51 Used – Excerpt from book: CHAPTER m. LOCATION OF RAILWAY. The first field duty is that of survey for location. The terminal points are usually determined in the outset of the project, and the work required is. to settle the intermediate line, which should devolve on the engineer; at least he should make all necessary surveys, maps and estimates of expense, and lay the whole before the Board of Directors, with his opinion as to the most elegible route. In the early history of our railways this wa |
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Realigning for Change: 8 Principles for Successful Change Management in Your Organisation $36.44 New – Change management remains “top of the management pops” according to current surveys on the most pressing issues. Senior managers and executives, middle managers, and front-line staff are constantly asking the following questions: Why is change necessary? Why is corporate change an ever present phenomenon? Why is change management such an issue, and if it is a real one, how do we address it? Organisational aims (primarily internal rather than external) are often “out of synch” — mis-align |
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