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Dr. Wicker has developed a unique approach to goal setting that is applicable for everyone. Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about changing or developing your future. This book includes real-life examples and applicable work exercises to utilize when setting goals. The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your...

Special Ed takes the reader on an autobiographical journey through the life of someone succeeding in spite of his dyslexia. Receiving little assistance in identifying and dealing with his learning difficulties, Ed perseveres to create a life he wants rather than allowing others to dictate his future based on limited assessments of his abilities. The book tells the story of an individual who although intelligent and creative consistently perfor...

What was paganism really like? Who were the gods and how were they worshipped?

Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.

»Dieser Stadtteil hat die Weite, die Dehnbarkeit eines Kontinents«, schreibt Réne Prévot über Schwabing. »Es ist die ästhetische Experimentierstation der Kulturstadt München. Die wundersame Wahlheimat aller Spleene, eine gastliche Freistatt für jegliches Schlawinertum, ein Asyl für alle Außenseiter der Bürgerlichkeit. Ein Babelturm, der in den Himmel wachsen möchte.« Prévots »Schwärmerei« für den berühmtesten aller Münchner Stadtteile erschien...

Barton follows the life of Moses, looking at how his experiences of solitude before God gave him the vision that shaped his ministry and leadership. This book provides contemporary leaders with a picture of how solitude sustains the people they are leading.

A moving and powerful mystery, The Forgotten Garden is the bestselling second novel from author of The House at Riverton, Kate Morton.1913 On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace.1975Now an old l...

This book is about questions. Today's learners face constant change. Adaptive learner expertise is key to their survival on a learning journey that lasts a lifetime. This requires new thinking of all actors in the learning environment. The fundamental process through which this book was created is an extended in-depth dialogue among researchers, lifelong learners, educators, and thinkers. "Working on this book was a very special kind of exper...

Since the publication of the first edition, the techniques and experimental approaches employed in the study of adipose tissue have undergone radical expansion and revision.  In Adipose Tissue Protocols: Second Edition, several updated chapters are combined with many new contributions from internationally recognized experts covering both conventional and state-of-the-art methodologies as well as whole animal, cellular and molecular approaches ...

The purpose of this book is to provide graduate students and practitioners with traditional methods and more recent results for model-based approaches in signal processing.Firstly, discrete-time linear models such as AR, MA and ARMA models, their properties and their limitations are introduced. In addition, sinusoidal models are addressed.Secondly, estimation approaches based on least squares methods and instrumental variable techniques are pr...

This title provides a comprehensive overview of elastoplasticity relating to soil and rocks. Following a general outline of the models of behavior and their internal structure, each chapter develops a different area of this subject relating to the author′s particular expertise.

In 1994 Benjamin R. Barber was invited by President Clinton to participate in a seminar on the future of democratic ideas and ideals. Following their meeting, Barber became an informal consultant to the Clinton White House, working with a president who proved to be an astonishing listener open to a variety of ideas. Barber's experiences were unexpected and enlightening-the most unpredictable being his interactions with the president himself.Ba...

First published in France in 2003 by Hermes Science/Lavoisier under the titles 'Commande et regulation des reseaux electriques' and 'Stabilite et sauvegarde des reseaux electriques'"--T.p. verso.

The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity on the one hand, and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. In relation to these topics, it investigates a number of new ...

Spectral techniques facilitate the design and testing of today's increasingly complex digital devices There is heightened interest in spectral techniques for the design of digital devices dictated by ever increasing demands on technology that often cannot be met by classical approaches. Spectral methods provide a uniform and consistent theoretic environment for recent achievements in this area, which appear divergent in many other approaches....

Praise for Extreme Toyota "This book, based on unprecedented access to Toyota, offers a revealing look at one of the world's greatest companies. The authors, professors at Japan's most innovative business school, find that Toyota's success goes far beyond its production system and draws on its unique approaches to marketing, sales, and human resource management. Toyota has reshaped auto manufacturing into a knowledge-driven industry. Toyota's...

La consommation de pétrole se concentre de plus en plus dans le secteur des transports. Ainsi, des variations relativement limitées de la demande dans ce secteur peuvent avoir des effets de plus en plus sensibles sur les cours du pétrole, qui ont atteint un sommet historique début 2008, franchissant la barre des 100 dollars le baril pour la première fois depuis le choc pétrolier de 1979. Le facteur sous-jacent de cette flambée des prix a été l...

Bringing together the expertise of leading research practitioners in the field, the second edition of Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders is an up-to-date reference for the underlying theory and the basic principles of assessment and treatment. This book provides a solid foundation in the conceptual framework essential for classifying and differentiating disorders according to clinical categories. It covers the theory underlyi...

A collection of poems that amuse, impress, and finally dazzle the reader. Williamson's innovations in the sonnet form create diamonds out of carbon. Greg Williamson has lived in Nashville. Tennessee and was educated at Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins Universities. His poetry has won the Nathan Haskell Dole Prize, the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize and a Whiting Award. He currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Marylan...

A dazzling display of poetic talent by a master of meter and rhyme. Joseph Harrison was born in Richmond, Virginia and has also lived in Alabama. He earned his BA from Yale and his MA from Johns Hopkins. His poetry has appeared in various journals such as The Antioch Review, Boston Review, and The Yale Review, and his first collection of poetry. Someone Else's Name, was a runner-up for the 2005 Poet's Prize.