Narrated by the Author, Michael Kerr!What do you want your legacy as a leader to be?As a leader, you have a unique opportunity to influence the people around you in profound ways. To make a difference. To leave behind a lasting legacy.International business speaker, Michael Kerr, believes you owe it to your employees and their families, to your colleagues and customers, and to yourself to embrace your role as a cult...

Narrated by author Michael Kerr, this book is about front line leadership. It's for anyone, at any level, who wants to be happier at work, create a more positive, happier workplace, and be more successful in their career. The Jerk-Free Workplace celebrates the fundamental idea that anyone can be a leader, regardless of their position or status. It celebrates the idea that there is a profound difference between being an employee and being a leader; between being a manager a...

This book isn’t just about giving jerky work behaviors the boot!The Jerk-Free Workplace offers an inspiring roadmap on how to take the lead when you’re NOT the boss – although you’ll definitely want to slip a copy onto your boss’s desk!If you want to be happier at work, build a more collaborative team, and create a more inspiring workplace, then this is the book for you!In fact, we think this is a book everyone on your team or your entire company will want to read. ...

Leverage The Humor Advantage to deliver outrageous results in your workplace! Your culture is your #1 competitive advantage. But here's the rub: Inspiring cultures don't happen by accident. You can't buy, borrow or fake a great culture. You need to be deliberate about building a truly inspiring culture. That’s where The Humor Advantage comes in.      The Humor Advantage is packed with ideas on how you, your team and your entire organization can put humor...

Family therapy has become a well-established treatment modality across many mental health disciplines including clinical social work, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and counseling. This book tells the story of how family therapy began based on the work of one of the pioneers of family theory and therapy, Murray Bowen, M.D.Bowen's psychiatric training began at the Menninger Foundation in 1946. It was during the later part of his eight years at Menninger's that he began his transit...

Was einmal jenseits der Realität schien, ist mehr und mehr Teil der Alltagserfahrung geworden: online und offline sind nicht mehr trennend zu denken, virtuelle Realität (VR) findet Einsatz in verschiedensten Bereichen (Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Militär, Bildung). Auch für den Religionsunterricht sowie in (theologischen) Studiengängen lassen sich entsprechende Szenarien entwickeln. Der Band vermisst erstmalig den Status quo theologischer und pädagogischer Forschung zur VR im Dialog mit weit...

The concepts of Murray Bowen, one of the founders of family therapy and the originator of family systems theory, are brought together here in an integrative fashion.Michael Kerr (who worked with Bowen for many years) and Bowen propose that the enormously complex task of evaluating a clinical family can be orderly when it is grounded in family systems theory.Using family diagrams and case studies, the book is devoted to an elegant explication of Bowen theory...

A much-needed update to one of the most significant family therapy theories of the past century.Murray Bowen (1931–1990) was the first to study the family in a live-in setting and describe specific details about how families function as systems. Despite Bowen theory being based on research begun more than seventy years ago, the value of viewing human beings as profoundly emotionally-driven creatures and human families functioning as emotional units is more relevant...

A bike ride at the beginning of the summer break turns into a fantastic, sometimes terrifying, weird and wonderful adventure for twelve-year-olds: Samantha (Sam) Craig, Ben Cooper, and Tommy (Frog) Scott.Finding a chalice made of gold behind a waterfall, the three pals are transported to a different dimension, into a world where all manner of surprises and dangers lurk at every turn.Like it or not, the trio have been chosen to return the long lost chalice to the Keeper-in-W...

There have always been historical and philosophical connections between the study of religion and rhetoric, and yet, the phrase "sacred rhetoric" is rarely found within scholarly conferences, presentations, and publications. The editors of this collection intend to fill this void by presenting a collection of essays which define, in the broadest terms possible, "sacred rhetoric" as necessary discourse of/on religion.The contributors represent multiple perspectives and disparate acad...

Lebendig begraben Der blanke Horror für jeden Menschen. Meine brennenden Augen starrten in die umgebende, undurchdringliche Finsternis. Eine Schwärze, in dem der Tod auf einem lauerte. Er umkreiste mich schon wie Geier das Aas. Ich spürte längst seine nach mir greifenden, eiskalten Knochenfinger Der Knall auf dem Sargdeckel fallender Erdklumpen klang in den Ohren nach. Es hatte etwas Endgültiges. Ich wartete auf den Tod. Beerdigt in meinem eigenen Grab. Auf dem Grabstein stand ein Name, gu...

Diese neue Auflage des „Wendehorst Bautechnische Zahlentafeln“ wurde um die Kapitel Netzmanagement und Sonderkonstruktionen im Beton sowie Bauen und Umwelt erweitert. Das Kapitel Netzmanagement enthält die Themen: Wasserverteilungssysteme, Entwässerungssysteme, Fernwärmeversorgungssysteme, Gasversorgungssysteme mit Bezug auf Planung, Einbau, Instandsetzung und Sanierung. Das zweite neue Kapitel Sonderkonstruktionen enthält die Schwerpunkte...