Author: Michelle Burke
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: professional, office, valuable
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1996-11-09
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0814478883
ISBN-13: 9780814478882
Many times it is the assistant who bears the brunt when manager and assistant are working "out of sync." This unique book shows assistants how to take charge of their relationship with their boss--with a multitude of tools, tips, and interactive exercises to help assistants meet this challenge and become indispensable!.
Author: Joan N. Burstyn
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: citizen, valuable, educating
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 1996-07
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0791429482
ISBN-13: 9780791429488
Author: Eliot Deutsch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: philosophy, global, worlds, valuable, persons
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0742512150
ISBN-13: 9780742512153
Persons and Valuable Worlds argues for pluralistic ethics, philosophical anthropology, and epistemology in a cross-cultural context. It provides an account of what it means to be a genuine social and spiritual being--what it means to be a person in the diverse worlds of which we are a part, and to which we contribute in significant ways. It further strives to reintegrate moral and value considerations into philosophy throughout the range of its inquiries.
Author: Steve Hoffmann
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: valuable, resource, world’s, investing, water, planet
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-04-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0470277408
ISBN-13: 9780470277409
Solving the world’s water problems is proving to be one of the greatest investment opportunities of our time. Already, world water supplies are inadequate to meet demand, and the problem is going to get much worse in the years ahead. The World Bank estimates that 1.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and about 50 percent of the world’s hospital beds are populated by people who have contracted water-borne diseases. If present consumption rates continue, in 25 years the world will be using 90 percent of all available freshwater. To address the problem, trillions of do
Author: F. Leigh Branham
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: valuable, talent, ways, business, people, keeping
Number of Pages: 337
Published: 2000-11-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0814405975
ISBN-13: 9780814405970
Today’s worker shortage is painful enough, but compounded by other employment realities--resignations on short notice, sudden disappearances by new hires, through-the-roof recruitment costs, associated customer and staff disruptions--it’s enough to make anyone handling personnel feel as if they’re in a war. That’s exactly the premise advanced by employee-retention specialist Leigh Branham, whose Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business offers a very workable plan for victory in a workforce battle with no immediate end in sight. It details 24 Retention Practices that
Author: Emma Samuel Etuk
Publisher: Emida Intl Pu
Keywords: unfriendly, world, friendships, valuable, finding, real, friends
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1999-08-13
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1881293025
ISBN-13: 9781881293026
Excellent book about friendship in the home, at schools and colleges, at work, in the church, across racial lines, meaning and benefits of friendship.
Author: John R. Talbott
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: protect, valuable, investment, things, market, crash, housing, coming
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2003-04-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 007142220X
ISBN-13: 9780071422208
Today’s real estate market is a house of cards--learn what homeowners can do to prepare for its pending collapse Soaring home prices and 50-year low interest rates have lulled homebuyers into a false sense of security. But plummeting consumer confidence and record-high personal debt threaten to blindside overextended homeowners and real estate investors. The Coming Crash in the Housing Marketshows homeowners how to avoid owing more to lenders than their houses are worth--known as an "underwater" mortgage--and reveals commonsense steps for protecting one’s assets when the bottom f
