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What do Gloria Steinem and I.B.M. have in common? Both have sought the advice of Alan Lakein, famous time management expert, in order to minimize the time they waste and to maximize their productive c
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This is the dramatic and inspiring true story of runner Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio and eventually went on to win three gold medals in a single Olympics. “A triumphant story, tr
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The highly acclaimed girls' guide to adolescence by a Newbery Honor-winning author is now available in a rack-sized paperback edition. Reviewers were unanimous in their praise for this useful and impo
Yikes! A king cobra has escaped from the park zoo. Now Maxie must race to find out if the snake eats geese like her or frogs like her friend Maxie—before it's too late! In this action packed page-turn
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The proliferation of giant multi-organizational agencies in the last decade has fostered a rethinking of inter-organizational interactions. By synthesizing emerging planning theories with the most rec
The first empirical examination and analysis of collective responsibility—that is, departments trying to act as "self-directed collectives working collaboratively toward goals derived from a well
Streamline the processes vital to optimum performanceWith over 100,000 copies sold worldwide, Improving Performance is recognized as the book that launched the Process Improvement revolution. It was t
For nearly a century, the words and works of Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., have translated into proven success -- a claim verified by millions of satisfied graduates; a perpetual 3,000-plus en
Bring home your child's classroom with the wonderfully imaginative STEP AHEAD series. Proven educational methods reinforce what is taught in preschool through the elementary grades. Simple instruction
Looks at seven companies--Canon, Ford, Honda, Philips, Rubbermaid, and Toshiba--that have redefined existing markets and achieved domination by focusing on product creation
A reissue of the classic 1948 work on power-system stability for power-system engineers and graduate students, the first offering in the IEEE series of reprinted texts in power system engineering. Pro
Tuberculosis - the greatest killer of all time - has claimed more than a billion lives worldwide. Dr. Frank Ryan tells the remarkable story of the handful of dedicated doctors, chemists and bacteriolo
An excellent resource handbook for survivors of sexual violence and those who support them, offering the crucial prerequisites to healing: acknowledgment, comfort and information. Provides detailed a
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Singled out by Fortune and The New York Times as a remarkable manager, Dan Kaplan has pioneered a revolutionary new system for measuring service quality to help managers keep track of intangibles in a
A treatment of the experimental techniques and instrumentation most often used in nuclear and particle physics experiments as well as in various other experiments, providing useful results and formula
