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Proven methods for smoother and more productive teamwork Teamwork is rarely simple, easy, or natural. It's not enough to announce "we're a team” and expect results. The Fieldstone Nonprofit Guide to Developing Effective Teams is a collection of the best tried-and-true team-building methods. All types of nonprofits, community groups, volunteers, and board members can benefit from the tips and processes in this guide. Plus, no matter what role y...

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King Shahryar kills a new wife every night, because he is afraid she will stop loving him. But his new bride Shahrazad has a clever plan to save herself. Her nightly stories--of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and many other heroes and villains--are so engrossing that King Shahryar has to postpone her execution again and again... This illustrated edition brings together all the Arabian Nights tales in an original retelling by award-winning author...

Important texts in the Church's history collected together in one volume.

A gripping thriller by the author of the Unlikely Spy.

ciples and recommendations on genetic service provision in a multidisciplinary way. At the workshop the main issues and principles that are presently emerging as integral parts of national and international recommendations on genetic service provision such as: - voluntary provision of services - protection of choices - patient autonomy - informed consent - nondirective counseling - confidentiality were discussed and the participants tried to a...

Time-evolution in low-dimensional topological spaces is a subject of puzzling vitality. This book is a state-of-the-art account, covering classical and new results. The volume comprises Poincar¿endixson, local and Morse-Smale theories, as well as a carefully written chapter on the invariants of surface flows. Of particular interest are chapters on the Anosov-Weil problem, C*-algebras and non-compact surfaces. The book invites graduate students...

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Now available alongside book 2.

A follow-up to the original "Conversations With God", looking at more global topics of geopolitical and metaphysical life on the planet, and the challenges now facing the world. The first book sold over 1.5 million copies and reached No.3 in the "New York Times" bestseller lists. *Publication brought forward, now available as is "Book 3" below*

We live in a World no longer under heaven. At least in most people's minds and imaginations that vision of reality has become little more than a caricature, conjuring up the saints and angels of baroque frescoes. And in the church only a hint remains of the power it once exercised in the hearts of believers".So begins A. J. Conyers in this provocative book, and suggests that the eclipse of heaven has resulted in a shallower view of life and de...

After a decade of conducting interviews, as well as observing and analyzing plays, books, pop music, and graffiti, Essig presents the first sustained study of how and why there was no Soviet gay community or even gay identity before "perestroika." 9 photos.

Plato's great attempt to define the nature of the sophist -- the false image of the philosopher -- has perplexed readers from classical times to the present. The dialogue has been central in the ongoing debate about the theory of forms, and it remains a crucial text for Plato scholars in both the analytical and the phenomenological traditions.Stanley Rosen's book is the first full-length study of the Sophist in English and one of the most comp...

This read-aloud book about life on the farm is perfect for all children ages 3 and up. This delightful illustrated book, with vibrant color pictures, details the daily routines of Betty and Bobby, and their farm animal friends the sheep, the pigs, the ponies, the chickens, the cows, and the geese.

Heat Lightning, Progress, Cat, George Orwell"--there's little the poems of Alpay Ulku do not address.

The touching, hilarious memoir of legendary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee reveals her childhood trouping across 1920s America as the rear end of a cow in vaudeville. Her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930s New York occurred when gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities and Walter Winchell was king. Filled with an outrageous cast of characters, including Broadway's funny girl, Fanny Brice, who taught Gypsy how to be a star, gan...

Based on surveys and interviews of 200 gay men, Nardi's new study presents a book-length examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships.

The single most important topic in finance today is the art and science of credit risk management. Growing dissatisfaction with traditional credit risk measurement methods has combined with regulations imposed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1993 to send numerous financial institutions in search of alternative "internal model" approaches to measuring the credit risk of a loan or portfolio of loans. This has led to a raging d...

Asset-backed Finanzierungen sind ein attraktives Instrument, um Bilanzen zu entlasten und Bilanzstrukturen zu verbessern. Der Forderungsverkauf soll beim Verkäufer bilanzbefreiend wirken und an der Beziehung zu dessen Forderungsschuldner nichts ändern. Risiken der Forderungen und ihrer Finanzierung sollen dabei weitgehend beim Forderungsverkäufer bleiben. Mathias Turwitt zeigt, dass die factoringanaloge Bilanzierung wichtige Aspekte von Asset-...

Die Transformation ostdeutscher Unternehmen verlief je nach Branchenzugehörigkeit, Betriebsgröße, regionalen Rahmenbedingungen und Humankapital sehr unterschiedlich. Dabei nimmt der ehemalige VEB, die heutige Thüringer Teppichfabriken GmbH, eine Sonderstellung ein. Nachdem ein rascher Privatisierungserfolg ausgeblieben war, erfolgte hier eine Sanierung vor Privatisierung als Beteiligungsunternehmen einer von der Treuhandanstalt initiierten Man...