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Done Deal: Your Guide to Merger and Acquisition Integration
M. Beth Page
2006
"When is the Deal Done?" The greatest barrier to successful integration is cultural incompatibility. Undervaluing or ignoring the human dynamics related to an M&A transaction can prompt the departure of key talent that was among the assets that made the acquisition attractive to the buyer in the first place. The importance of an organization s culture, particularly as a risk factor in M&A integration, cannot be underestimated. Harvard researchers report that firms that managed their culture realized a nearly seven-fold increase in revenue, compared with only 166% for firms that did not manage culture. You will discover how using transition teams, an integration manager, and a comprehensive employee communications strategy rank among the best practices in the 5C Integration Model for strengthening your M&A Integration the 5C Self Assessment workbook for your M&A planning the importance of the human dimension to overall M&A success.
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Arnheim's Principles of Athletic Training: A Competency-Based Approach
William E. Prentice and Daniel D. Arnheim
2006
Illustrated by numerous black and white photographs, this classic textbook introduces the principles trainers should follow to help athletes avoid injury, explains tissue susceptibility to sports trauma, and describes the anatomy and musculoskeletal injuries that can occur to each region of the body. The twelfth edition adds material on stretching, ephedrine, low carbohydrate diets, and headgear.
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Awakening the Workplace: Achieving Connection, Fulfillment and Success at Work
Kathy Glover Scott and Adele Alfano
2006
Increasingly, people are seeing themselves in a new light in relation to their work, expressing higher expectations for achieving connection, fulfillment, and success. At the same time, the workplace is constantly evolving, creating a need for new approaches and strategies to create environments in which people work more effectively together to achieve lasting results. In short, both as individuals and teams, we seek to be fully alive in our work—finding personal meaning and creating stellar growth for our organizations. Awakening the Workplace is the seventh book in the popular Experts Who Speak book series. In this volume, we are proud to offer the collective wisdom, experience, and knowledge of 16 top speakers, coaches, and consultants from across North America and Australia. Each is a specialist in workplace issues and innovation—with proven results. Where else can you find this essential information in one book? In this volume, you’ll learn how to: • Focus your actions to achieve exponential results • Awaken the leader within • Unleash spiritual passion at home and work • Create an authentic workplace • Activate innovative leadership strategies • Integrate your work and life in a winning way • Boost your change resilience • Ride smoothly when the road gets bumpy • Defeat the energy crisis in the workplace You are holding in your hands a unique gold mine of essential information, strategies and expertise directed to awaken your limitless potential and enable a progressive, thriving workplace. The choice is yours—to remain where you are or move forward…
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Marketing to Hispanics: A Strategic Approach to Assessing and Planning Your Initiative
Terry J. Soto
2006
For many companies already targeting this lucrative market segment and for those who are considering it, success is not always guaranteed. Even companies with a reputation for well-planned and implemented marketing programs often fail to do the upfront homework, apply the necessary analytical frameworks, and set the foundation; often resulting in false starts and initiatives that do not achieve the necessary internal traction necessary for a successful and sustainable strategy.
In Marketing to Hispanics: A Strategic Approach to Assessing and Planning Your Initiative, Terry Soto provides an in-depth view of the strategic planning process companies need to apply to effectively create market entry strategies that are in sync with not only the environment in which companies compete for a share of this market but also with their strategic, operational and organizational goals and metrics. Terry Soto's book provides a practical, systematic approach to preparing your company to target and serve Hispanic America and to set realistic goals by which to measure your success. -
The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary: 30,000 Words Including Cognates, Roots, and Suffixes
Scott Thomas
2006
The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary is much, much more than a Spanish vocabulary reference! This unique and complete resource combines three complementary approaches to vocabulary building―cognates, root families, and suffixes―to instantly increase word familiarity and aid memorization.
Whether for active face-to-face communication or passive comprehension of written or spoken words, in-depth knowledge of vocabulary is the key to foreign language mastery. The Big Red Book of Spanish Vocabulary makes acquiring this mastery simpler and more straightforward than ever.
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Finding the Life You've Been Looking For
H Norman Wright
2006
Everyone envisions a better life for themselves and their family. But daily demands soon take over the hope of a different way. H. Norman Wright, bestselling author and noted Christian counselor, renews hope for readers with the assurance that the simpler life they want is in reach when they define success in meaningful terms, simplify all areas of work and home, create balanced priorities and downscale, release emotional baggage, and set up a personal plan.
Loaded with sound advice and user-friendly suggestions, Finding the Life You've Been Looking For will guide readers toward making manageable changes to their pace, expectations, activities, relationships, possessions, and spiritual life in order to achieve the life of their dreams.
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Star Wars, the Cestus Deception: (A Clone Wars Novel)
Steven Barnes
2005
Jedi master, Obi-Wan Kenobi goes to the planet Ord in order to persuade the manufacturer not to export the powerful battle droids to the Confederacy, but discovers that he is not the only one pursuing them.
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Changing Lanes: A New Adult's Guide to Understanding Your Lane in Life
Tonia N. East
2005
Provocative and deeply uplifting, Changing Lanes fulfills a purpose as a strong, spiritually directed guide for those who face one of life’s greatest challenges: learning about self and one’s unique purpose in life. Changing Lanes has been well received by readers in various stages of life, especially those in transition. Whether it is a career change, marriage, divorce, graduation, or promotion, change is inevitable at any age. Changing Lanes is unique in that it addresses many of the issues people face, in a way that relates directly to their experience.
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Bodac!ous Career: Outrageous Success for Working Women
Mary E. Foley
2005
If you're like most women, you sense you could be doing better. Bodacious! Career: Outrageous Success for Working Women, shows you how! Learn what it takes to build a successful career. How to thrive in constant change. How to embrace office politics. How to actively market yourself. How to know your worth. How to take a stand. How to think strategically, and act bodaciously. And much more!
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Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine
Candice E. Jackson
2005
Bill Clinton rose to the White House proclaiming himself a supporter of women's rights, but this shocking expose reveals a pattern of disturbing actions that render his rhetoric hollow. Combining in-depth research and first-hand accounts, Candice E. Jackson proves that Clinton used his political power to harass, intimidate and terrorize the women who got in his way. And while Jackson stops short of morally condemning the former president for his philandering, her research uncovers an undeniable link between his liberal beliefs and misogynistic behavior. It's a discovery that should concern women everywhere, given that Hillary Clinton, his eager accomplice, might one day occupy the Oval Office.
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If Looks Could Kill
Jeanne Lazo
2005
On Halloween night, four children find a dead body wearing red shoes in the local cemetery, and decide to investigate the murder when the shoes reappear a week later in a painting displayed at the local art gallery.
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If Looks Could Kill: Teacher's Guide
Jeanne Lazo
2005
If Looks Could Kill Teacher's Guide, for grades 6-8, is packed with innovative tools to stimulate classroom discussion and get every child actively involved. Companion to If Looks Could Kill, a mystery by Jeanne Lazo for ages 10 and up, this guide helps teachers and students expand the joy of reading to a multi-dimensional learning experience.
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Nicaragua
Richard Leonardi
2005
Central America’s best-preserved secret. Sleepy towns and active volcanoes. Where to go and what to see. Deserted beaches and pristine rainforests. Where to eat, drink and sleep, from beach huts to elegant colonial haciendas. A nation of poets and comedians. Rum, reggae, and revolution. Full-colour maps. Kamikaze parrots, fishing bats, and iguanas that can raise the dead…
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Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott
Patricia Loughlin
2005
Scholars of the American West have largely overlooked the lives and work of three women public historians who, in the 1930s and 1940s, produced some of the most important writings about Oklahoma and the Southwest. In Hidden Treasures of the American West, Patricia Loughlin illuminates the contributions of Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott to the study of the West and American Indians.
Muriel Wright, an Oklahoma Choctaw, promoted Oklahoma history in her writings for the Chronicles of Oklahoma, a journal published by the Oklahoma Historical Society. Wright focused on the progress, strength, and endurance of American Indian cultures.
Angie Debo, Wright's contemporary, studied American Indian history and Oklahoma's distinct identity as a place of frontier possibilities and American Indian settlement. She participated in the larger, national discourse concerning the history of the United States and the history of the American Indians, revisiting issues she thought were misrepresented in previous accounts.
Alice Marriott, an anthropologist, was known within the discipline as a pioneer of experimental ethnography, but she never enjoyed the respect her output deserved. Marriott strove to convince collectors that Indian arts and crafts from Oklahoma were just as authentic and valuable as those from Arizona or New Mexico.
Patricia Loughlin sketches the biographies of these influential women including their significant texts that contributed greatly to Oklahoma historiography, their establishment of new methodologies, and their understanding of state and regional history, federal Indian policy, and interpretations of American Indian cultures.
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Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
Michael Shermer
2005
In each of the essays in Science Friction, psychologist and science historian Michael Shermer explores the barriers and biases that plague and propel science, especially when scientists push against the boundaries of the unknown. As Shermer puts it, the challenge we all face in distinguishing facts from fiction can be summed up with a twist on a well-worn bromide: "I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it." What do we know and what do we not know? How does science respond to controversy, attack, and uncertainty? Together, these fourteen essays probe the omnipresent clash between the known and the unknown, always employing Shermer's trademark wit and intelligence.
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The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Michael Shermer
2005
From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the very nature of humanity. In The Science of Good and Evil, science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates; how and why morality motivates the human animal; and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans. As he closes the divide between science and morality, Shermer draws on stories from the Yanamamouml;, infamously known as the "fierce people" of the tropical rain forest, to the Stanford studies on jailers' behavior in prisons. The Science of Good and Evil is ultimately a profound look at the moral animal, belief, and the scientific pursuit of truth.
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Falling Away: Why Christians Lose Their Faith & What Can be Done About It
Brian Simmons
2005
How can a son, raised in an authentically Christian home, reach adulthood and then make the choice to walk away from the faith he has learned since infancy...while his sister, raised in the same home and circumstances, grows into a sure, stable, and closely-treasured belief in God and his promises? Why do people from mixed marriages fall away from the church more often? What are the signs that an adolescent is having something more than a normal identity crisis? How can Christians respond to deep, probing questions of faith from those who are struggling, without closing the door on their return to the Christian fellowship?
Drawing on the latest sociological, psychological, and religious research - and most importantly, drawing on the wisdom of Scripture - Brian Simmons seeks to answer these and other important questions about the process, implications, and consequences of apostasy. A must-read for anyone who's ever questioned the faith - or loved someone who did.
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Another Attempt at Rescue
M. L. Smoker
2005
Poetry. Native American Studies. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE is the first collection by M.L. Smoker, whose work has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison. "M.L. Smoker's poems are tough, funny, magical, but not in a goofy way. This is blue-collar magic. Unemployed magic. Living on government cheese magic. I highly recommend this collection"--Sherman Alexie. Smoker is an Assiniboine/Sioux writer from the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
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The Crabs of Santo Domingo: The Power of Working Together
Carlos A. Conejo
2004
The concepts of "helpful crabs" and "fighter crabs" are used to illustrate the power of collaboration and cooperation.
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Bodac!ous Woman: Outrageously in Charge of your Life and Lovin' it!
Mary E. Foley
2004
Mary wrote this book to inspire women to be courageously in charge of their lives and lovin' them like never before. Women who were taught to be "good girls" when they were young now realize that being a good girl isn't good enough in today's fast-paced, demanding and constantly changing world. Plan B is to be bodacious. Based on personal experience, "Bodacious! Woman" offers a simple, but powerful approach to feeling alive and in charge of your life. Using fun language such as "live like your nail color" and the "bodacious woman mantra," as well as sharing both her successes and struggles, Mary is able to connect with her audience in a very authentic, attractive way.
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Persistence is Power!: A Real-World Guide for the Newly Disabled Employee
Jeanne Lazo and Carol J. Amato
2004
Newly disabled? Yes. Powerless? Not anymore!
Persistence is Power! is a complete, nationwide disability resource to help you through the entire disability process. Packed with step-by-step-instructions, checklists, forms, examples, answers to FAQs, Internet sites and other resources, this book is a must-read for newly disabled employees, their caregivers, and anyone who works for organizations that serve them.
Persistence is Power! provides information about all three of the major disability benefit plans (Social Security, Disability Insurance, and Workers Compensation) as well as other benefits. Written in simple language, with headings and key words in blue, readers can quickly locate and easily understand the information they need.
Learn how to develop your own coping strategy; decide if long-term disability is right for you; determine eligibility for disability benefits; gather evidence and prepare a winning claim; manage paperwork; deal with financial, medical, legal, and privacy issues; and avoid common disability traps. Armed with real-world facts, you'll be back in the drivers seat, making informed decisions that affect you and your family/loved ones.
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I Won't Read and You Can't Make Me: Reaching Reluctant Teen Readers
Marilyn Reynolds
2004
Marilyn Reynolds has brought many disaffected, school-hostile, and wholly unmotivated students into the ranks of lifelong readers. In this concise, practical book, she shares techniques she has used and personal anecdotes that reveal much about reluctant readers and teachers who struggle daily to engage them. In addition to insightful analysis, Reynolds devotes a good portion of her book to practical, immediately usable resources, including answers to frequently asked questions, prompts for teaching, and a separate section of "Tricks of the Trade" with logs, forms, an extensive list of "hit" books, and much more.
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The Penny Pincher's Passport to Luxury Travel
Joel L. Widzer
2004
Although its emphasis is on getting a good deal, this no-nonsense guide steers people firmly away from no-frills travel and points them toward the wonders of first-class accommodations and preferential treatment. The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel provides readers with the secrets and wisdom necessary to travel first class on a tight budget. Engaging and entertaining true-life travel anecdotes demonstrate how the luxury travel experience is not impossible for most travelers, while, in down-to-earth, accessible language, the author tells travelers exactly what to do and not to do to travel in style. "Quick Tips" reinforce the most important information in each chapter, and "Key Points" provide a step-by-step summary at each chapter's end. Over 30 pages of appendices provide listings of toll-free numbers, comparison charts of airline, hotel, and car rental frequent-user programs, as well as relevant Internet sites and software programs.
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