From Leonie Frieda, critically acclaimed biographer of Catherine de Medici, comes The Deadly Sisterhood an epic tale of eight women whose lives--marked by fortune and poverty, power and powerlessness--encompass the spectacle, opportunity, and d
Luksulik seep sisaldab pehmendavat kookosõli ja sheavõid, niisutavat glütseriini, antioksüdantiderikast manuka lehtede ekstrakti ja niisutavat mesilaspalsami õieekstrakti. Iga "Busy Bees" müüdud toode toetab uhkusega Bumblebee Conservation Trusti, mis on Ühendkuningriigis ainus heategevusorganisatsioon, mis on pühendunud mesilaste kaitsele. Iga müüdud toote eest annetatakse 5p.
Kätekreem sisaldab sheavõid, E-vitamiini, laimi ja teepuu eeterlikke õlisid ning muraka, rabarberi ja leedriõie ekstrakte. Värske aroom, mis on inspireeritud Briti aedadest, rabarberi ja sireliõite, roheliste lehtede ja valgete rooside nootidega.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 568, Publishers: Oni Press, Author: Zachary Sterling,Phil Murphy,Ian Mcginty, ISBN-13: 9781637156322, Date of issue: 2025
Based on archival research, this is a history of the Russo-Chinese border which examines Russia's expansion into the Asian heartland during the decades of Chinese decline and the 20th-century paradox of Russia's inability to sustain political and economic sway over its domains. Autorid: Sarah C.M. Paine
For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast, where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs, to prisons for interviews with men serving life sentences, and to the graveyards where mourners weep. Each chapter explores a world where history, faith, and human savagery determine life and death. At once moving and harrowing, Rebel Hearts is the most authoritative and insightful book ever written on the IRA.
For many years, lean initiatives have generated staggering improvements on the shop floor. This book shows you how to efficiently translate and transition lean manufacturing principles into the office. It confirms that the competitive advantage will go to those who manage information and knowledge most effectively and efficiently.
Kätekreem sisaldab pehmendavat sheavõid, antioksüdantiderikast manuka lehtede ekstrakti ja niisutavat mesilaspalsami õieekstrakti. Rikkalik kakaoseemnevõi ja antioksüdantiderikas E-vitamiin pakuvad kätele erilist hooldust. Huulepalsam sisaldab pehmendavat sheavõid ning porgandiseemneõli ja E-vitamiini. Iga "Busy Bees" müüdud toode toetab uhkusega Bumblebee Conservation Trusti, mis on Ühendkuningriigis ainus heategevusorganisatsioon, mis on pühendunud mesilaste kaitsele. Iga müüdud toote eest annetatakse 5p.
THE NEW NOVEL FROM CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER, THE STAR OF THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL! A story of love, food and a little bit of magic, All That She Can See is an enchanting and beautiful novel that's guaranteed to be the most magical story you'll read all year - out in paperback in March 2018! Feelings are part of life - feelings are life. If you take away what people feel, you take away anything meaningful. Wanting to diminish the evil in this world is a good cause, one I have fought for the majority of my life, but not like this ...Cherry has a hidden talent. She can see things other people can't and she decided a long time ago to use this skill to help others. As far as the rest of the town is concerned she's simply the kind-hearted young woman who runs the local bakery, but in private she uses her gift to add something special to her cakes so that after just one mouthful the townspeople start to feel better about their lives. They don't know why they're drawn to Cherry's bakery - they just know that they're safe there and that's how Cherry likes it. She can help them in secret and no one will ever need to know the truth behind her gift. And then Chase turns up and threatens to undo all the good Cherry has done. Because it turns out she's not the only one who can see what she sees ...#AllThatSheCanSee
LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2023 'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph 'A literary provocateur' Guardian Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she keeps to her routines and doesn't let her thoughts stray too far into the past. But a newspaper photograph of a missing local schoolgirl and a letter from her old teacher are all it takes for her ordinary, careful armour to become overwhelmed and the trauma of what happened when she was a pupil at The Schoolhouse to return. The Schoolhouse was different - one of the 1970s experimental schools that were a reaction to the formal methods of the past. The usual rules did not apply, and life there was a dark interplay of freedom and violence, adventure and fear. Only her teenage diary recorded what happened, but the truth is coming for her and everything she has tried to protect is put at risk. Set between the past and the present, The Schoolhouse is a masterful and gripping novel about childhood, secrets and trust.
An empowering picture book to help children channel worries into excitement and bravery! Aah, Ooh and Eek are three very worried friends. They worry EVERYWHERE - in school, at the park, in the pool, and especially in the dark. Sometimes their worries get so big, they just don't know what to do! Luckily someone is there to help - their good friend Pow! Pow helps listen to their worries, shows them how to calm their busy minds, and together they learn that sometimes worried butterflies inside can be excitement too! This relatable picture book will help children to manage their worries, find their confidence within and shine like the stars they are! The playful characters, bouncy rhyming text and vibrant artwork make this the perfect book to enjoy together. Includes a mindfulness activity at the back of the book. Autorid: Neil Clark
Keeping Score ensures that you look at the right metrics. The author contends that metrics must focus on the past, present, and future and be based on the needs of the customers, shareholders, and employees. Measuring everything is more damaging than measuring nothing -- pinpointing the vital measures is the key to success. Integrating the "balancing scorecard" concept with a Baldrige approach, Keeping Score will show you how toEvaluate your current approach to measurementPinpoint incorrect performance measurementsSelect the right financial metricsMeasure customer satisfaction and valueMeasure quality of products and services before they reach customersPerform process measurementTrack supplier performanceMeasure employee satisfactionRedesign metrics and systems used to collect and report data Autorid: Mark Graham Brown
Presents the 20 Keys system, which brings together 20 of the world's best manufacturing improvement approaches and integrates them into a dynamic system that enables companies to adapt to a continuously changing economic and competitive environment. Continuous near-term (three years) improvements made in the 20 key areas result in a less expensive, faster, safer system for producing a higher quality product. This revised edition, translated from the revised Japanese edition of 1994 (Nikkan Kogyo Shimbunsha), includes new illustrations, explanations, and two new case studies (Morioka Seiko, Japan and Windfall Products, Pennsylvania). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Autorid: Iwao Kobayashi
This ambitious ten-volume series develops a comprehensive analysis of the evolving world role of the post-Soviet successor states. Each volume considers a different factor influencing the relationship between internal politics and international relations in Russia and in the western and southern tiers of newly independent states. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the discrediting of Marxism-Leninism as a source of political legitimacy have prompted a search for fresh principles of political organization that will shape the nature of political culture in all the post-Soviet countries. This volume focuses on the International dimension of Post-communist transitions. Autorid: S. Frederick Starr, Karen Dawisha
Providing a complete and accessible introduction to process maps, The Basics of Process Mapping, Second Edition raises the bar on what constitutes the basics. Thoroughly revised and updated to keep pace with recent developments, it explains how relationship maps, cross-functional process maps (swimlane diagrams), and flowcharts can be used as a set to provide different views of work.New in the Second Edition:Four new chapters and 75 new graphicsAn introduction to the concepts of flow and waste and how both appear in knowledge work or business processesA set of measures for flow and wasteA discussion of problematic features of knowledge work and business processes that act as barriers to flowSeven principles* and 29 guidelines for improving the flow of knowledge workA detailed case study that shows how one organization applied the principles and guidelines to reduce lead time from an average of 28 days to 4 daysUnlike "tool books" or "pocked guides' that focus on discrete tools in isolation, this text uses a single comprehensive service work example that integrates all three maps and illustrates the insights they provide when applied as a set Pt contains how to procedures for creating each type of map and includes clear-cut guidance for determining when each type of map is most appropriate. The well-rounded understanding provided in these pages will allow readers to effectively apply all three types of maps to make work visible at the organization, process, and job/performer levels. Autorid: Robert Damelio
Shiba and Walden have significantly revised their classic, A New American TQM. With new methodologies and case studies, this work is one of the most comprehensive studies of management theory and business success. The authors identify a comprehensive approach to management that goes beyond operations improvement to help executives and managers create unique organizational capabilities. They contend that organizations must develop skills in four major areas: customer focus, continuous improvement, total participation, and societal networking. They present proven methods that enable dynamic implementation strategies, facilitate ongoing learning, and encourage continuous diffusion of evolving information and quality practices throughout an organizations entire network. Techniques described have been instituted at Analog Devices, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Teradyne and many other companies. Numerous in-depth case studies from these and other companies illustrate actual implementations. Shoji Shiba, formerly of MIT is one of the most respected business consultants in the world. Among his many accolades, he received the 2002 Deming Prize, one of the highest awards in management bestowed in Japan. "Professor Shiba has been a source of inspiration, experience and knowledge to countless numbers of CQM members, MIT faculty and students and other organizations and companies around the world....The success of his publications, teaching and consulting proves that the principles of TQM are universal, applicable across all cultures and languages. Shiba is a truly great teacher, researcher and innovator ... ." --Ray Stata, founder and chairman of both Analog Devices and CQM. David Walden, is the retired senior vice president of Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., and former Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Business. Both Shiba and Walden are well known for their contributions to the Center for Quality Management. Autorid: Shoji Shiba, David Walden
A thorough, theoretically informed study of Russian economic reform under Boris Yeltsin from 1991 to mid-1993, based on research projects carried out at the Moscow Institute of Sociology, Russian newspapers and journals, government publications, national surveys, and the authors' interviews and four-city study. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. This text sets Russia's current economic transformation in the context of economic and political change, and provides an overview of issues central to the economic reform debate in Russia. It also highlights the human dimension of large-scale economic change through case studies and interviews. Autorid: Julie Nelson, Irina Y. Kuzes
This bibliography, first published in 1957, is the only source for citations to North American scholarship on Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans, the Baltic states, and the former Soviet Union. Entries are grouped according to general topics; anthropology, ethnology, archaeology; culture and the arts; economics and foreign trade; education and scholarship; geography and demography, government, law, and politics; history; international relations; language and linguistics; literature; military affairs; philosophy, political theory, ideology; psychology; religion; science and technology; sociology; obituaries; and reviews of books previously listed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Autorid: Patt Leonard, Rebecca Routh
This book proposes a new approach to the sociology of knowledge, providing a cross-section of some of the major theories that have influenced and continue to influence the field.Through a series of engagements with the history of the discipline, it brings a critical realist perspective to bear on key themes within the sociology of knowledge. Moving away from the notion of critical realism as an under-labourer for the social and human sciences, it seeks to affirm a more fully sociological account of knowledge and, as such, emphasises its social meaning. In addition, the book presents an account of the under-appreciated convergence between critical realism and Norbert Eliass approach to the sociology of knowledge.This book will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social theory with interests in the sociology of knowledge and critical realist thought. This book proposes a new approach to the sociology of knowledge, providing a cross-section of some of the major theories that have influenced and continue to influence the field. It will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social theory with interests in the sociology of knowledge and critical realist thought. Autorid: Philip D. Walsh
Sick and tired of being passed over for promotion after promotion, thirty-five year old Beatrice Archer is done with the corporate hamster wheel and all the 'rules' women have to play by if they want to ride. Instead, she's moving to the middle of nowhere, where no one knows her name, and she's going to break every damn rule there is. Drinking beer for breakfast - check. Trading in skirts and stilettos for yoga pants and bunny slippers - check. Saying all the things shes thinking but didnt say before - double check. Shes finally living her best life, and the last thing she needs is the attention of a straitlaced, small-town junior cop. Before long, though, twenty-five-year-old Austin Cooper is aiding and abetting Bea's rule-breaking ways... which leads to the biggest rule break of all. Embracing her inner wanton and having nonstop monkey sex with said junior cop? Big, fat check. Its all fun and games until the corporate world comes back aknockin... Autorid: Amy Andrews
A thoughtful and wonderfully written coming-of-age story set during one of the most tumultuous and divisive periods in US history. Michael Haddad, the teenage son of Palestinian immigrants, comes of age during the tumultuous sixties in his familys neighborhood grocery store in New York City.In 1967, Michael maneuvers through the working-class neighborhood delivering groceries and enters the homes and lives of his customers. Hes confronted by the violence of racist bullies and falls for the radical college co-ed who teaches him about sex, love, and protest. Michael grieves with the mother whose only son died in the Vietnam War and is embraced by the first Black couple who move into the neighborhood. They all shape him, and through the conflict of hate, acts of kindness, and his sexual awakening, Michael struggles to figure out who this dutiful son of an immigrant family is.Michaels life is buffeted by the killing of Martin Luther King, Jr, and the death, two months later, of Bobby Kennedy. His girlfriend opens his eyes to the ongoing struggle to test national ideals against the growing diversity of America. But when Michael experiences a sudden personal tragedy, he must learn to get past his fears, come to terms with his heritage, and set himself free. Autorid: Paul Aziz Zarou
»Writing Juárez« ist eine Reflektion über literarische Darstellungen von aktuellen Gewaltdynamiken an der nordmexikanischen Grenze. Tobias A. Jochum verbindet in seiner Studie feministische Anthropologie, kritische Geographie und soziologische Gewalttheorien aus dem lateinamerikanischen Raum mit nordamerikanischen Border Studies, Affect Theory und postkolonialen Diskursen, um weltliterarische Werke wie Robert Bolaños Roman »2666« neben lokaler Literatur aus Ciudad Juárez zu lesen. Diese Grenzstadt bleibt hierbei keinesfalls ein überdeterminierter Imaginationsraum für spektakuläre Horrorszenarien, sondern generiert neue kritische Epistemologien mit globaler Reichweite sowie neue Formen kulturellen und politischen Widerstands.
This intriguing book is the first to explore the potential of shipwrecks discovered off the Holy Land to rewrite social and economic history. Ancient myths and modern misconceptions about Byzantine Palestine's maritime compatibility are radically reconsidered by discussing cargoes in relation to wine, glass, cloth and dye processing across the Holy Land and by plotting mass exports shipped as far as Britain and the Yemen. A new model for the province's economy is assembled, in which middle-class merchants and entrepreneurs replace the traditional image of oppressive State and Church domination. Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land integrates archaeology, history and early modern travelogues to argue that in isolation shipwrecks are of limited value and must be appreciated as cogs in far broader exchange mechanisms. It sets a new theoretical agenda for the thousands of shipwrecks continuing to appear beneath the Mediterranean Sea and is an invaluable source for students of everyday life in Late Antiquity.
Poziom 4 - 800 słów.Welcome to the UK to tytuł należący do serii Primary CLIL Readers: Explore Our World. Seria łączy naukę języka angielskiego z poznawaniem zagadnień z innych obszarów kształcenia - przyrody, historii, geografii. Jest skierowana do dzieci mających 7 lat i starszych, uczących się języka angielskiego na poziomach od A1 do B1. Poziom trudności poszczególnych tytułów został oznaczony w skali od 1 do 6. Seria bazuje na tematach, którymi dzieci są zafascynowane, a to zachęca i motywuje do nauki języka. Z książkami z cyklu Explore Our World można pracować podczas lekcji w szkole lub samodzielnie w domu. Książce towarzyszy aplikacja CLIL App (kod umożliwiający jej pobranie jest dostępny w pakiecie z książką) zawierająca m.in.: filmy dokumentalne, ścieżki dźwiękowe (wersja karaoke, czyli z podświetlaniem odpowiedniej linijki widocznego na ekranie tekstu), interaktywne ćwiczenia i słowniczek.
