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Wearing the Spider
Susan Schaab
2007
Sexual Harassment, Identity Theft, and Political Intrigue in one High-Tech Legal Thriller. It starts with a simple unwanted kiss and evolves into a labyrinthine trail of forgery and illusion. A lawyer's identity is hijacked and misused by a ruthless partner of her Manhattan law firm who engages in email impersonation, political gamesmanship and electronic forgery to set her up as the mastermind of an illegal scheme that ultimately leads to murder. She embarks on a clandestine investigation while dodging the FBI, risking her life as well as her career.
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What's Your BQ?: Learn How 35 Companies Add Customers, Subtract Competitors, and Multiply Profits with Brand Quotient
Sandra Sellani
2007
More than 100 books have been written on branding, but none of them take you through a step-by-step process of building a brand. Most business leaders are overwhelmed with the day-to-day operations of running a business and view branding as something that should be left to the marketing department. But in fact, branding is inextricably linked to strategy and the leader of the organization must be the brand champion. This book is the only one of its kind that addresses the link between strategy and brand by using an evaluation tool (the BQ Test) and by teaching clients how to build a strategy-based brand. The book also uses the powerful VRIO Model introduced by Dr. Jay Barney of Ohio State University to give companies a practical way to determine their true points of differentiation and sustainable competitive advantage in an environment of increasing complexity and competition.
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The Heartbreakers
Pamela Wells
2007
When three high school friends experience breakups on the same night, a fourth writes "The Break up Code," which all agree to follow as they try to get over the bad relationships and get back in touch with themselves and one another.
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Don't Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People
Richard Carlson
2006
Presents sixty ways to guard against stressful elements and dysfunctional people during the holiday season.
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Don't Get Scrooged: How to Thrive in a World Full of Obnoxious, Incompetent, Arrogant, and Downright Mean-Spirited People
Richard Carlson
2006
Presents sixty ways to guard against stressful elements and dysfunctional people during the holiday season. Don't Get Scrooged is a jewel of a handbook on how to avoid, appease, and even win over the Scrooges who haunt your holidays. Whether it's the salesclerk who ignores you in favor of her cell phone, the customer who knowingly jumps ahead of you in line at Starbucks, the unnaturally irritable boss down the hall, or the in-laws who invite themselves (every year) for a two-week stay at your house, you will always need to deal with Scrooges, grumps, uninvited guests, sticks-in-the-mud, and supreme party poopers. Learning to handle them whenever and wherever they appear is not just optional—it's essential.
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Plant My Feet on Higher Ground
Ila E. Flinn
2006
From prankster to preacher? Just start in the Galveston Storm, September 1900. That will lead you back to 1857 and your parents for the most unusual of three love stories in this history.
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The La Brea Tar Pits: A Field Trip & Self-Study Guide; Understanding the Past & Critical Thinking
Allen W. Jang and William S. Weston
2006
A review of the theories surrounding the deposit of animal carcasses in the tar pits, including the fluvial transport theory adopted by some Creationists (i.e.: deposit by flood waters). According to the traditional view, the La Brea Tar Pits were pools of entrapment for unwary animals. This view fails to account for a variety of anomalies, including the disarticulation and intermingling of skeletal parts, the lack of teeth marks on herbivore bones, the absence of soft tissues, the inverse ratio of carnivores to herbivores, the numerical superiority of water beetles among insect species, and water saturation of wood debris. An alternative theory assuming a catastrophic flood is a better explanation of the data. This theory can apply to other late Pleistocene fossil sites, where similar anomalies occur. Fossil deposition by catastrophic flood seems to be global in scope. These considerations provide strong confirmation for the young Earth-Flood model of geologic history.
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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
Presents a collection of over 30,000 Spanish words and their definitions, including cognates, roots, prefixes, and suffixes, with over 14,000 terms group by word root.
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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
The lives of eight women who crossed romantic paths with Bill Clinton are examined.
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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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