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Rancho Santa Margarita
Michael A. Moodian
2010
Set in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains, Rancho Santa Margarita is a vibrant city with the unique quality of an urban village. Although incorporated on January 1, 2000, making it one of California's youngest cities, it has a rich and intriguing history that dates back to the origins of the Golden State. During the late 1800s, the original ranch covered 230,000 acres, making it one of the largest in the Southwest. With many never-before-seen images, this book captures the essence of this fascinating story of the city, including the Spanish expedition in the 1700s, the Mexican governance of the land, the ownership of the area by the O'Neill family, the ranch activities of the 1960s, and the building of city landmarks in the 1980s, including the development of the most scenic lake in Orange County.
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A New Day: A True Story of Faith, Healing, and Miracles
Dora Barilla
2009
Dora Barilla had the perfect life; a great job, a handsome firefighter husband, two beautiful daughters and a house in the suburbs. But on March 15, 2005, her world was turned upside down. While on a routine call, husband Tom Barilla suffered a traumatic brain injury in a horrific collision that nearly killed him, destroying Dora's perfect world.In painstaking detail, Dora recounts the days sitting by Tom's bedside as he lay in a coma, the numerous surgeries he endured, the endless hours of rehabilitation and weeks of nasty litigation that pitted the family of firefighters and the city against the California Highway Patrol and the tour bus company that crashed into Tom's fire engine.Dora tells the story of her struggle to maintain optimism for her family and friends as well as keep her own sanity. Ultimately, with faith and understanding, Dora is able to accept the challenges of her new world and embrace a new day.
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Succeeding in the Real World: What School Won't Teach You
Hoan Do
2009
The truth is that school is nothing like the real world. For many, life after college means serious responsibilities and difficult decisions to make finding a place to work, how to pay back school loans, and figuring out a direction in life. Whit the uncertainties that exist after graduation, students are feeling more anxious and unprepared to transition from academic life to real life. This book shares straightforward, useful advice and solutions to deal with the day-to-day challenges that young people face.
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Succeeding in the Real World: What School Won't Teach You
Hoan Do
2009
The truth is that school is nothing like the real world. For many, life after college means serious responsibilities and difficult decisions to make, finding a place to work, learning how to pay back school loans, and figuring out a direction in life. Whit the uncertainties that exist after graduation, students are feeling more anxious and unprepared to transition from academic life to real life. This book shares straightforward, useful advice and solutions to deal with the day-to-day challenges that young people face."
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Working World 101: the New Grad's Guide to Getting a Job
Bridget Graham and Monique Reidy
2009
Targeting the generation-specific problems that thwart young grads' career efforts, "Working World 101" helps young people develop the well-spoken poise, confidence, and professional attitude needed to succeed in the real world
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Working World 101: The New Grad's Guide to Getting a Job
Bridget Graham and Monique Reidy
2009
Targeting the generation-specific problems that thwart young grads' career efforts, "Working World 101" helps young people develop the well-spoken poise, confidence, and professional attitude needed to succeed in the real world.
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Contemporary Leadership and Intercultural Competence: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Dynamics Within Organizations
Michael A. Moodian
2009
Featuring contributions from some of the world′s most renowned cross-cultural management theorists and commentators, this breakthrough text explores the cross-cultural dynamics within organizations. The book examines the evolving role of cultural diversity in the workplace, the application of cultural comprehension to organizations, and the measurement of various aspects of intercultural competence.
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Integrating Planning, Assessment, and Improvement in Higher Education
Barbara J. Sherlock and National Association of College and University Business Officers
2009
Based on Penn State s popular Innovation Insights series, this book brings together in one handy reference nearly a decade of tried and true insights into continuous quality improvements in higher education. Their five-step model for integrating planning, assessment, and improvement moves plans off the shelf and into the weekly and daily scheduling and prioritizing process. It uses assessment as a guide for future actions and goals, and process improvement, innovation, and reengineering as a means to implement a plan.
Supported by data and tools, readers will learn how to create a culture of innovation; adopt a student-centered approach to continuous quality improvement; lead a successful innovation; make accurate assessments; foster teamwork and collaboration; and implement plans. Drawing on Penn State's IMPROVE method, as well as many other leaders in the field, this book offers proven methods and tools for running effective meetings, facilitating teams, conducting surveys, using focus groups, benchmarking, and developing strategic performance indicators.
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Miraculous Messages: From Noah's Flood to the End Times
David W. Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier
2008
From the producers of Breaking the Da Vinci Code, The Search for Heaven, and Faith in the White House, this book investigates the incredible links between Noah's Flood and Global Warming and End Times! The newest installment in our Faith Evidence Series explores a mystery to which all of mankind is seeking the answer. Beginning with the story of Noah and woven throughout the pages of the Bible is a thread that ties together our past, present, and future--a series of supernatural messages that carry the keys to life, death, and eternity.
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Miraculous Messages: from Noah's Flood to the End Times
David W. Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier
2008
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Child of Wonder: Nurturing Creative & Naturally Curious Children
Ginger L. Carlson
2008
Designed to nurture children who think, wonder, and love to learn, this collection of inspiring ideas and techniques guides children’s creative development. A thoughtful, engaging resource—for parents and educators seeking to understand creativity and to encourage it in practical ways—this guide illustrates multiple intelligences and learning styles and provides tools to develop a creatively supported environment that cultivates family participation. An array of complementary hands-on activities explores topics such as imaginative play, math, movement, music, cooking, science, storytelling, visual arts, questioning, cooperative games, media, and nature.
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Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper
2008
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
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The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies are Developing their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success
Robert M. Fulmer and Jared L. Bleak
2008
The best competitive weapon any company can have is its up-and-coming leaders. The Leadership Advantage shows companies what some exceptional organizations are doing to develop their best and brightest. Based on substantial research and featuring the results of a 2006 study conducted by Duke Corporate Education, APQC, and the Center for Creative Leadership, Robert M. Fulmer and Jared L. Bleak show how these companies:
* create learning opportunities for individual employees as well as the entire company * maintain a strong partnership between line managers and human resources * develop high-potential employees * evaluate success by measuring company-wide achievement * tie leadership development to business goals
Featuring illuminating case studies of companies like Caterpillar, Cisco Systems, and PepsiCo that have made leadership development an integral part of their business strategy, The Leadership Advantage will ensure that today's businesses have the tools to help their most promising talent reach their greatest potential and to create a company-wide culture of excellence.
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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers
Keith R. McFarland
2008
The vast majority of small businesses stay small--and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent--a tiny one-tenth of one percent--break through to annual sales above $250 million. Here, consultant McFarland pinpoints how breakthrough success is associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate. McFarland spent five years building and analyzing the world's largest growth-company performance database and interviewing more than 1,500 growth-company executives on four continents. His goal was simple: to identify the secrets of breakthrough. The result is a collection of real-world tools and myth-busting insights that can be used by anyone wanting his or her business to join this exclusive circle.
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Messengers of the Risen Son in the Land of the Rising Sun: Single Women Missionaries in Japan
Bonnie Miller
2008
The complete story of the church in Japan is broad and encompasses married couples, single men and women, and native evangelists. This book endeavors to tell the story of a small segment of those who went to Japan before World War II - the single women who dared to do what few men were willing to do. They left their families and friends to cross nearly six thousand miles of ocean, alone, in order to take the gospel to the people of Japan in the early years of the twentieth century. -- introduction.
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Messengers of the Risen Son in the Land of the Rising Sun: Single Women Missionaries in Japan
Bonnie Miller
2008
The story of the evangelism of Japan by a courageous group of women who left everything and sacrificed all for their Lord.
As the nineteenth century came to a close, Japan was a mysterious group of islands that had been previously closed to the Western world. Christianity had been blamed for many of the ills that had befallen the island nation. This is the amazing story of how a group of Christian ladies left their nation, their culture, and the safety of their homes to bring the gospel to a male-dominated, biased world. -
The entrepreneurial investor :the art, science, and business of value investing
Paul Orfalea
2008
The Entrepreneurial Investor will inspire you to treat investing like a business and to think of yourself as an owner. Through solid examples and a light narrative, Paul Orfalea skillfully explores the essence of the entrepreneurial investor, which includes balancing the art and science of this discipline and viewing investing itself as a business. Along the way, he also examines how the elements of focus, opportunism, and involvement can improve your overall investment results.
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From Crime to Crime: Mind-Boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder
Dennis Palumbo
2008
Hollywood screenwriter Dennis Palumbo (My Favorite Year) threw in the pen to become a psychotherapist to the very same writers, directors and producers he had worked with in the industry. Now, he has picked that pen up again -- this time writing dark, yet humorous, short mysteries. In From Crime to Crime - Mind-boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder, Palumbo offers readers a chance to solve each mystery by giving them all the clues necessary.
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The Age of Engage: Reinventing Marketing for Today's Connected, Collaborative, and Hyperinteractive Culture
Denise Shiffman
2008
Whether you're a marketer, communications expert, CEO, or business owner, you face the daunting challenge of marketing with your customers, not to them. In this book, Denise Shiffman lays out a blueprint for how you can create persuasive value so that your products stand out, build trust by reshaping audience interactions, expand social currency and extend your sphere of influence, and deploy new marketing vehicles to capture the hearts, minds, and wallets of your customers.
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The Red Schwinn Bicycle: "A Sentimental Journey"
Barrie C. Bartulski
2007
An endearing and captivating story, The Red Schwinn Bicycle: A Sentimental Journey, recounts the journey of one bike and the fun, selfishness, arguments, sadness, and fond memories that its presence creates for six boys.The first owner, "Red," receives the bike through a stroke of sheer luck when his mother wins her bet on a game of chance known simply as "the numbers." While experiencing firsthand the ugliness of war and death on Iwo Jima as a Marine in World War II, Red envisions the good times he had with his bike to seek relief from fierce fighting with Japanese soldiers. Red must decide if he will pass the bike onto his brother Robert, and will nephew Richard become another owner of the bike! Jack, a neighborhood boy whose widowed mother cannot afford a bike, is allowed to use the bike, becomes a paratrooper and is sent to Korea. Barrie, who believes he will someday follow in family ownership of the bike fights fiercely for the first time, with a brother he loves dearly over the bike. Tommy, an adopted, friendly little boy, who also uses the bike will take it on its final ride.A touching memoir, The Red Schwinn Bicycle is the story of how six boys' lives are affected by the use of this enchanting and magnificent bike.
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