Subject(s): Self-confidence | Employee motivation | Labor policy | Time management Summary: "Increase productivity, efficiency, and full-brain power when you apply Now Habit strategies to your business. What if working harder, stressing more, and putting in more hours aren't the secret to success? What if truly effective managers, entr

Subject(s): Design -- Historiography Summary: "Design History has become a complex and wide-ranging discipline. It now examines artefacts from conception to development, production, mediation, and consumption. Over the last few decades, the discipline has developed a diverse range of theories and methodologies for the analysis of objects. D

Subject(s): Financial risk management | Risk management Summary: "Risk management has become virtually as important as portfolio construction and asset selection, more so after the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Those who understood the fine art of risk management survived the wreckage of the markets; those who depended entirely on risk mod

Subject(s): Design | Architectural design | Industrial design Summary: "We now live in a designed world and we need to develop a better understanding of how to discuss and critique its design components. The essays presented here - selected from the preeminent journal, Design Issues - are intended to enhance our collective understanding of

Subject(s): Remedial teaching | Basic education | Educational tests and measurements Summary: Edward S. Shapiro provides practical strategies for working with students across all grade levels (K-12) who are struggling with reading, spelling, written language, or math. --from publisher description. Contents:Choosing targets for academic ass

Subject(s): AutoCAD | Computer graphics | Computer-aided design | Three-dimensional display systems Summary: "Throughout the book, the following methods are used to present material: - Explain the new concept or command and why it is important. - Cover the command step by step (if needed), with your input and AutoCAD responses shown so you

Subject(s): Vampires -- Fiction | Wealth -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction Summary: Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods--an ancient group of vampires--now find themselves in an epic battle for survival following the stunning revelation of a young socialite's true identity and the growing threat of th

Subject(s): Europe -- Economic history Summary: "Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organised by topic rather than b

Subject(s): Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Activity programs -- Great Britain Summary: Àn essential addition ... Wegerif zooms in on the most important ingredient of all in a learning-to-learn classroom culture - the kinds of talk that are allowed and encouraged -and brings together both scholarly and practical approaches

Subject(s): Religion and science Summary: "In recent years, the relations between science and religion have been the object of renewed attention. Developments in physics, biology and the neurosciences have reinvigorated discussions about the nature of life and ultimate reality. At the same time, the growth of anti-evolutionary and intellige