Even without the word manager in your title, you manage people every day of your life. You manage expectations at work and at home with your family, friends, and business associates. Author Terry T. J. Jenkins has been supervising employees for decades, and he has also excelled at managing his personal affairs. In this step-by-step guidebook, he shares the lessons hes learned from climbing the corporate ladder and in his daily life. Success starts with commonsense approaches that few peopl...

Three Wise Cats is an inspirational tale about three cats and their journey to witness the first Christmas. The old Siamese Ptolemy was alongside his master when a star of unusual brightness was seen in the heavens, indicating an event of momentous significance, and leading to a great quest. Ptolemy must watch over his frail master, so he sends three young cats to journey in his place and fulfill the prophecy: The three shall find the one. The three are, Abishag, a sturdy reliable cat who ...

John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager, and performer, he transformed the urban entertainment market, creating genres and promotional methods still with us today. This volume gives the first comprehensive overview of Rich’s multifaceted career, appreciation of which has suffered from his performing identity as Lun, London’s most celebrated Harlequin. Far from the lightweight buffoon that this stereotype has sug...

Eine Demenzdiagnose kann beängstigend und belastend sein, doch dieses einzigartige Buch bietet Pflegekräften – sei es in der Familie oder im professionellen Bereich – praktische und einfache Werkzeuge, um Verhaltens- und Kommunikationsprobleme effektiv zu bewältigen, die bei der Betreuung von Menschen mit Demenz auftreten können. Diese Drei Dinge betrachtet alltägliche Situationen (Anziehen, Hygiene, Mahlzeiten usw.) aus der Perspektive einer Person mit Demenz, mit dem Ziel, die K...

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now faces numerous challenges and transformations, it is timely to reflect on contemporary underst...

Pedro Gomez of ESPN was a beloved figure in baseball. His death from sudden cardiac arrest on Feb. 7, 2021, unleashed an outpouring of heartfelt tributes. He was 58, both a hard-nosed reporter and a smiling ambassador of the sport. These 62 personal essays soar beyond sports to delve into life lessons.Pedro, a proud Cuban American, was known for his dramatic reporting from Havana. Fully and fluidly bilingual, he did as much as anyone to bridge the wide gap that had...

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.Autistic advocates including Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Jeanette Purkis, Artemisia and Samantha Craft offer their personal guidance...

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.Autistic advocates including Liane Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Jeanette Purkis, Artemisia and Samantha Craft offer their personal guidance...

A dementia diagnosis can be terrifying and debilitating, but this unique book can provide caregivers—whether they are family members or professionals—with practical and simple tools to effectively address behavior and communication issues that may occur when providing care to those with dementia. These Three Things takes everyday situations (dressing, hygiene, meals, etc.) and looks at them from the perspective of a person with dementia with the goal of improving communication bet...

The old Siamese Ptolemy was alongside his master when a star of unusual brightness was seen in the heavens, indicating an event of momentous significance, and leading to a great quest. Ptolemy must watch over his frail master, so he sends three young cats to journey in his place and to fulfill the prophecy: The three finding the one.*Abishag, a sturdy reliable cat who has never shirked her duty.*Kezia, a beautiful young tabby, delicate and a bit vain, but of good he...

100The purpose of this book and the purpose of these sermons, these messages, is simply to proclaim a message of healing and a message of hope in the midst of the challenging, the chaotic, the confusing, the conflictual, and the critical climate, in which we are presently living.This book is just a gentle reminder, to let us know or, in many instances, to reiterate and to reverberate to us that no matter what we have gone through, especially during these last five years (du...

AI Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to Artificial Intelligence will help you gain confidence going forward with the new reality of artificial intelligence. While the specific tools I discuss here will evolve or be replaced in pretty short order, the concepts are long-lasting. In reading this book, you'll build a foundation of understanding that will help you think critically about these powerful new tools and make smart decisions so that you can gain the benefits and avoid the pitfalls.