Author: Weldon Beckner
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Keywords: leaders, educational, ethics
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-06-28
List price: $61.33
ISBN-10: 0205360912
ISBN-13: 9780205360918

Appropriate to all levels of professional development for educational leaders, this brief book emphasizes the practical application of contrasting philosophical and ethical concepts to realistic educational leadership challenges. Recognizing that educational administrators are required to make decisions in problem situations without ideal solutions, the major purpose of the book is to provide a philosophical and theoretical base along with practical suggestions and activities to use that foundation in making the best decisions possible in difficult situations. Throughout this book five main ob

Authors:Mark Beckner, Mark Simms, Ram Venkatesh,
Publisher: Apre
Keywords: biztalk, voice, expert, server, pro, rfid
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-02-27
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 1430218371
ISBN-13: 9781430218371

The market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is expanding rapidly, constituting billions of dollars annually. As more organizations adopt RFID solutions and related equipment, the need to route, map, and execute workflows based on RFID data grows exponentially. Microsoft’s solution to this demand is BizTalk RFID, an application built to distribute, track, analyze, and provide visibility into enterprise data collected using RFID technologies. To aid in the rapid understanding and adoption of BizTalk RFID, this book’s authors have joined together to present the def

Author: L. Weldon
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, Published in Association With The Chartered Institute of Bankers
Keywords: perspective, global, banking, private
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-11-26
List price: $245.00
ISBN-10: 1855733285
ISBN-13: 9781855733282

The first comprehensive professional guide to the workings and structure of the international private banking marketplace, this book details the services available, the key players, the distinctive characteristics of, pressure upon and trends within this traditionally very closed financial market. It begins with an analysis of the industry including an invaluable guide to private banking providers. The author then goes on to examine the profitability of private banking and then covers the structures and strategies which are necessary for private banking to work. The book concludes with an over

Author: Fay Weldon
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: fears, worst
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1997-05-07
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0871136821
ISBN-13: 9780871136824

After returning home from a stint on the London stage to find her husband mysteriously dead and her female friends suspiciously smoothing over the details, an actress begins losing her mind in finding her worst fears confirmed. Reprint. K. "

Author: Fay Weldon
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: leave
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0802143016
ISBN-13: 9780802143013

Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families — child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, for reasons of liberal principle, not married but partnered. All seems fine at first — healthy baby, happy couple — but when they have to decide who’ll look after little Kitty, things get complicated. Hattie’s dying to get back to work but Martyn fears employing foreign help might hurt his leftist politic

Author: Fay Weldon
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: spa
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802144055
ISBN-13: 9780802144058

Fay Weldon’s latest novel, The Spa, is full of all the biting humor and glittering prose that made her name. Always sharp tongued and occasionally libidinous, it offers a glimpse of the despairs and dalliances of a set of high-powered women who have burned paths through—and sometimes been burned by—their worlds and the men in them. It is the week between Christmas and New Year’s, and ten high-achieving ladies are gathered at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking to rejuvenate themselves with Botox, aromatherapy, and all-around pampering. They lounge around in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne

Author: Fay Weldon
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: blues, island, rhode
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-02-09
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 080213873X
ISBN-13: 9780802138736

Smart, sexy, and infinitely charming, Rhode Island Blues tells the story of Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded thirty-four-year-old film editor in London who believes that her only living relative is her stormy and wild grandmother Felicity. Troubled by her mother’s long-ago suicide and her father’s abandonment, Sophia overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues a flat sexual affair with the famous director of her latest film. But when she travels to Rhode Island to help Felicity settle into a retirement center, she begins to unravel mysteries about her family his