Cynthia: 2564 books
The Innovation Killer
How What We Know Limits What We Can Imagine -- and What Smart Companies Are Doing About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006
"Knowledge is good,"" preaches the inscription under the statue of college founder Emil Faber in the film Animal House. But as valid as that declamation may be at a university, in the corporate world what passes for knowledge can be a killer. Companies and teams rely on ""what...
Modern Civility
Etiquette for Dealing with Annoying, Angry, and Di
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Here are hundreds and hundreds of real people’s most common complaints and the proper responses to them. Written by an eminent etiquette expert, it is a guide to how to behave well and, more importantly, how to respond to bad behavior.
What are the right rules for the coffee machine at work?...
by Cynthia Kase
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Every trader will appreciate this reliable, realistic, and systematic approach to trading financial and commodity markets. In a step-by-step manner, the author applies a rigorous mathematical discipline to finanical speculation and explain how to analyze markets, forecast price movements, develop...
The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Professional, reassuring advice for coping with the disorder - at work, at home, and in your family
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, often mistaken for a too-big ego or inflated self-esteem, is in actuality a severe psychological condition that ruins marriages, social relationships, work environments, and the sufferer's own sense of self. Although perceived as self-confident and arrogant, narcissists...
What Women Really Want in Bed: The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew About Sex
The Surprising Secrets Women Wish Men Knew About Sex
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Are you puzzled by women and their sexual desires? Do you wonder, for example, whether your girlfriend or wife really likes giving-and getting-oral sex? What are her secret fantasies? What is it that she really needs to have an orgasm? Wonder no more. In What Women Really Want in Bed, over 200 women...
Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom
Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Do you find that preparing for standardized tests interferes with teaching advanced thinking, reading, and writing skills in a meaningful way? Do you want to balance test preparation with more creative activities? Success in school and beyond depends on one’s ability to read fluently, write coherently,...
by Arnetha F. Ball, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Patricia D. Quijada Cerecer
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Studying Diversity in Teacher Education is a collaborative effort by experts seeking to elucidate one of the most important issues facing education today. First, the volume examines historically persistent, yet unresolved issues in teacher education and presents research that is currently being done...
Web of Deceit
Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Skilled researchers, journalists, and subject experts have come together in this follow-up to Web of Deception to reveal important lessons for staying safe and retaining privacy online. In the wake of the social media popularity boom-epitomized by MySpace, eBay, and Craigslist and accelerating with...
by Cynthia Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Research on Professional Responsibility and Ethics in Accounting publishes high-quality research and cases which focus on the professional responsibilities of accountants and how they deal with the ethical issues they face. Covering timely issues such as social responsibility and ethical judgement,...
by Cynthia Scott, Tammy Esteves
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
We live in challenging times. New leaders are enhancing their "inner game" to maximize their organizational impact, and using the principles of sustainability to help their organizations thrive and innovate in response to 21st century challenges.
Leadership for Sustainability and...
Minding the Dream
The Process and Practice of the American Community College
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as well as the scholar.
New employees, current leaders, graduate students, legislators, and boards of trustees need...
Reading for Understanding
How Reading Apprenticeship Improves Disciplinary Learning in Secondary and College Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
"As elegantly practical as it is theoretically elegant. It is a guided tour, as one examines the tools of expert teachers as they engage students in a journey that is aptly dubbed Reading Apprenticeship?learning how to become a savvy, strategic reader under the tutelage of thoughtful, caring,...
by Cynthia Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Domestic violence is not new to the human condition; it is as old as mankind itself. It showed its ugly head in the first family that God created. Adam and Eves two sons brought it to form when Cain slew his brother Abel in a fit of jealous rage. But the answers to the problem are as old as mankind...
by Cynthia Jeffrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The professional responsibilities of accountants are broad-based; they must serve clients and user groups whose needs, incentives, and goals may be in conflict. Further, accountants must interpret and apply codes of conduct, accounting and auditing principles, and securities regulations. Compliance...