"Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning."You need results from a workforce that is knowledgeable, flexible, efficient, and resilient. Are you and your employees continuously learning and transforming yourselves to solve new problems and achieve new goals? Or are you less than satisfied with the learning and performance of your staff? This practical report, researched by a special task force of high-powered executives organized by the US Human Resource ...

The former American History editor explores the creation and restoration of an essential part of a twentieth-century home's identity—the American porch."In this delightful look at an American icon, journalist and documentary scriptwriter . . . Dolan traces the history of the porch, using this history to explore subjects such as architecture, history, slavery, colonialism, trade, anthropology, sociology, consumer behavior, and publishing." — Library Jour...

One easy step at time, get the job that best suits you. Begin by matching jobs to your skills. Then improve your interviewing, networking and resume writing. Finally, see which jobs are going to be most in demand. This is a practical handbook that works for people who want to. Compiles best practices along the full spectrum of job finding skills.

Hey, lighten up! And help your customers and co-workers have a little fun too. There's nothing like Funny Business available anywhere (that's why we wrote it). Find out how to put humor in your writing – and get away with it! Memos, letters, social media – make it all a little funnier.Here's just some of what you'll get:- The Basics of a Working Joke- Why Humor is a Good Idea at Work- The secret to puns- Science Discovers Keys to Humor- Business J...

Make them take notice when you write. You can write better – whether you are a beginner or the office pro. Learn the universal format for writing anything. Featuring favorite New Yorker cartoons.– This updated edition features a new chapter on Social Media– The fun writing guidebook that helps you improve right away.– See how business writing can be fast and easy.– Build on your style to become a better writer.– Come across as a professional.– Lear...

Imagine the horror that was Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest and most lethal of the Third Reich's six annihilation camps. Imagine it 1944 and a prisoner uprising at that terrible place, the rebels blowing up one crematorium, damaging another, and killing many of their SS masters. Imagine it Jews leading this revolt, a people those same SS thought incapable of fighting. Now imagine one of these leaders a 22-year-old girl, arguably the greatest Jewish heroine to come out of the Holocaust. Fin...

A historical biography that "illuminates a remarkable churchman who was in the vanguard of his time," written by New York's archbishop ( Publishers Weekly).A man far ahead of his time, Archbishop Edwin V. O'Hara of Kansas City (1881–1956) orchestrated numerous initiatives that profoundly affected American Catholic life. His ceaseless activity as both priest and bishop sowed seeds that flourished long past his lifetime, f...

In writing the original book and the revised text, I am constantly reminded that we are a house divided, and I feel deeply the lament of the psalmist who cried out: It is not enemies who taunt me I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me I could hide from them. But it is you, my equal, my companion, my faithful friend, with whom I kept pleasant company; we walked in the house of God with the throng. We Catholics are now a house divided. Not only that, we are in d...

How’s your spiritual appetite? In “Spiritual Hors d’ouevres” author Rev. Ronald Ramson, offers a “few trays” to “whet your spiritual appetite.” With snippets of Ramson’s life mixed in, it offers interesting, provocative, informative “starters” for further reflection.Spiritual Hors d’oeuvres covers a wide variety of subjects for your prayer and reflection. Bon Appetite!

Amra Thetys lives by two simple rules - take care of business, and never let it get personal.Thieves don't last long in Lucernis otherwise. But when a fellow rogue and good friend is butchered on the street in a deal gone wrong, she turns her back on burglary and goes after something more precious than treasure: Revenge.Revenge, however, might be hard to come by. A nightmare assortment of enemies believe Amra is in possession of The Blade That Whispers Hate...

Paul Dolan is a fourth-generation winemaker, former president of the well-known Fetzer Vineyards, and instrumental in introducing American wine lovers to the diverse varieties of wines that now enjoy broad popularity. He launched the organic wine industry in California and around the world. The simple techniques he discovered have opened the door to greater communication with and respect for employees, and created a context that allows exploration and discovery to thrive.

The journey of one small, scarred thief and her mage companion continues with Amra Thetys, Part II.Amra and Holgren's comfortable - if decidedly unexciting - life is rudely interrupted when Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box. A longstanding debt calls her back home to Bellarius, the scene of many childhood horrors she would much rather forget about.Bellarius must be saved from utter destruction and civil war. After Amra suddenly vanishes, H...