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Companies compete to find and keep the best employees, using pay, benefits, promotions, and training. But these well-intentioned efforts often miss the mark. The front-line manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. No matter how generous its pay or how r…
"In this book, Windy Dryden selects the eight ideas that have had the most influence on him in his career as a psychotherapist, and which form the bedrock of his work. These ideas reflect both his specific and general interests in the field. The book offers insight into the auth…
"In this book, Windy Dryden selects the eight ideas that have had the most influence on him in his career as a psychotherapist, and which form the bedrock of his work. These ideas reflect both his specific and general interests in the field. The book offers insight into the auth…
This book shows how dying is a management problem for hospitals, occupying space but few billable encounters and of little interest to medical practice or quality control. An anthropologist and bioethicist with two decades of professional nursing experience, Helen Chapple goes b…
The foundations of European civilization as we know it today were laid in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. "The faces of the other: Religious rivalry and ethnic encounters" in the Later Roman World traces the roots of the attitudes and argumentation about religious or e…
"From a longtime disability rights activist comes this moving window into the lives of people with disabilities and the lessons they can teach us .... Told through one hundred short, funny, harrowing, and thought-provoking stories, the book distills ten key lessons that reveal p…
Contrairement à la légende colportée dans les grands médias, le terme "islamophobie" n'a pas été inventé par les mollahs iraniens : il est apparu en France au début du XXe siècle, en pleine période coloniale, à une époque où s'exprimaient déjà de violents discours antimusulmans.…
Downsizing didn't produce the increase in productivity many companies expected. Working on the premise that the way we develop organisations depends heavily on how we organise and live our lives, the authors explore alternative methods.
Constructed around five major themes--play, organization, self, emergence, and coherence--this book offers a vigorous, path-breaking application of findings from the cutting edge of science to questions about how to live a life (Publishers Weekly). 24 photos.
Best-selling author Louise L. Hay has spent her life teaching people that their thoughts create their lives, and she has written numerous books for adults that have helped them discover their own self-worth. Similarly, Louise has always believed that if children could learn the …
