Object Lessons

What does it really mean to be a good father? What did your father tell you, that has stayed with you throughout your life? Was there a lesson from him, a story, or a moment that helped to make you wh

Author and etiquette maven Anna Post demonstrates that President Obama is more than our political leadera€”hea€?s also a worthy role model when it comes to good manners. The perfect graduation title.I

We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who recently celebrated his ninety-first birthday, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liber-ated a country from a system of

Tim Russert is perhaps the most admired man in television news. As NBC's senior vice president and Washington bureau chief, he has helped shape the way today's news is reported and analyzed. As produ

Koller, an economics journalist and former foreign correspondent for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, describes the multinational company Lincoln Electric, a Cleveland-based arc welding equipmen

"A real world tool for helping develop effectivemarketing strategies and plans." -- Dennis Dunlap, Chief Executive Officer, American Marketing Association"For beginners and professionals in search of

No sport rivals football for building character. In the scorching heat of two-a-days and the fierce combat of the gridiron, true leaders are born. Just ask Bill Curry, whose credentials for exploring

Cats do the funniest -- and wisest -- things!From being brazenly courageous to delightfully optimistic, remaining sweetly loyal to having a fierce sense of honor, cats demonstrate that they have trai

CENTURY 21 COMPUTER KEYBOARDING provides everything you need for in a one-semester course covering new-key learning, document formatting, and word processing. This latest edition helps students prepar

In The Man Who Loved Seagulls, Osho discusses essential stories and parables from the world's great wisdom traditions of Zen, Taoism, Christianity, and Judaism. Osho--himself a master s

Guide students through the writing process with 20 engaging graphic organizers geared toward the traits! They'll generate ideas, select just-right words, develop voice, and more. Interactive mini-less

“Just be yourself!” People say it all the time, but how do we actually live it?For more than a decade Matthew Kelly has been helping people discover the best version of themselves. Now, in Perfectly Y

Using the skills and personality of Nancy Drew as a guide, presents tips and advice on how to live one's life like the girl detective, covering fashion, beauty, romance, relationships, survival, sleut

“Confidence, fortitude, pride, persistence, fearlessness and focus are some of the true treasures of the spirit that can get you past defeat, help you build a business, raise a family and leave a valu

In this memoir and call to arms, Erin Gruwell, the dynamic young teacher who nurtured a remarkable group of high school students from Long Beach, California, who called themselves the Freedom Writers,

Learn why GE has always had the best inventors, the best strategic planners, and the best results William Rothschild, who witnessed GE?s revolution firsthand, explains the five keys that made GE a gl

In Poker: The Real Deal and Phil Gordon's Little Green Book, Phil Gordon -- a world-class player and teacher -- shared the strategies, tips, and expertise he's gleaned during his phenomenally success

Help students build background knowledge, synthesize information, and increase their overall understanding of social studies topics with this collection of 20 highly motivating, reproducible graphic

Animal Talk lets the cat (and the dog) out of the bag-our furry friends have a thing or two to say about life and how to live it. And it's no surprise: They spend a good deal of their time watching us

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insig

Drawing on educational and psychological research and adhering closely to QTS standards, trainee teachers will find this easy-to-read book an invaluable guide to child psychology and the psychology of

Remoting offers developers many ways to customize the communications process, for efficiency, security, performance and power, and allows seamless integration of components running on several computer

The Blended Learning Book is your user s manual for implementing blended learning.? It gives you a guidebook to combining the latest technologies with traditional training models to create high-impact

Greg Tang has built his career as an author and math missionary on the power of creative problem solving. Now, through winsome "fables" about concepts that are relevant to the very youngest math learn

How to put Jack Welchs ideas and tactics to work in any career or organizationJack Welch became one of historys most admired and successful CEOs by rewriting the rules of leadership and letting hands-

Unlock the Welch in YouThe Welch Way is the first book written specifically to help employees infuse their careers with the actions and success strategies of business icon Jack Welch. This accessible, fast-paced book draws on Welchs career to explain how workers can follow the proven Welch model to:Face reality Use change as a competitive weapon Defy tradition Fight fear Overcome bureaucracy Pounce on every opportunity Set stretch goals Move beyond boundaries Spark others to perform Get good ideas from everywhere Have fun Jack Welch transformed GE into the worlds most valuable corporation­­and became one of historys most admired and successful CEOs­­by cutting through bureaucratic noise and letting hands-on, frontline employees tell him what needed to be done. The Welch Way shows you how to work the Welch magic in your career and reach new heights in todays wide-open, idea-driven workplace.

The first book to address public policy in the light of recent corporate debaclesCorporate Aftershock is a reasoned, informed response to the numerous proposals to restrict derivatives, structured fin

Young Men Surviving Child Sexual Abuse examines a largely neglected area in child protection: the sexual abuse of boys.Andrew Durham, a consultant social work practitioner, describes his original rese

One of the only books that bridge the gap between O-O design (in UML) and O-O programming (in Java) in an integrated fashion. ? Learn how to translate a UML class diagram into Java source code ? Inc

The author of the bestselling Phonics from A-Z now shares the a wealth of practical ideas for helping students become fluent readers. Includes an easy assessment, many fun activities, oral reading st

Is this really how I want to live my life? Each one of us at some point asks this question. The tragedy is not that life is short but that we often see only in hindsight what really matters. In this

Bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant has had an amazing and difficult life -- one full of great challenges that have unmasked her wonderful gifts and led to the wisdom she has gained. In this simple bo

Be an online success story with the built-to-last Internet strategies used by today's leading e-businessesGeneral Electric PlasticsEnronVictoria's SecretNortel NetworksDavid Bowie (DavidBowie.com)Gene

This is a book dealing with the big questions about development:· What is development?· Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'?· Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impov

This is a book dealing with the big questions about development:· What is development?· Can Third World countries ever hope to 'catch up'?· Can a development path be found that avoids indefinite impov

This book analyzes the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1999. In addition to the issues of financial system restructuring, export-led recovery, crony capitalism, and competitiveness in Asian manufacturi

Golf. It's the ultimate head game. And when nothing but the best advice will do, along comes M. Scott Peck, M.D., the celebrated psychiatrist and author of the best-selling self-help book of all time,

"We all think that management is a twentieth-century, newly invented skill, but its roots go back thousands of years. This book is essential reading to learn that we cannont deal with today's problems

Do you want to encourage children to read the Bible? Do you want children to realise that the Bible is God's guide for them, relevant, exciting, dynamic! TnT Ministries have developed 'On The Way' to