The author focuses on critical success factors, the people issues involved, and learning from other people's big mistakes. The book includes a variety of real life examples and real benchmarking data, performance metrics and best practices.
Fromt the #1 New York Times bestselling author. What if damnation is the price of true love? Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war...
The story of U.S. Marine special operations in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan. ALWAYS FAITHFUL, ALWAYS FORWARD.
Improve your writing with Oxford Writing Tutor. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is a world bestseller with over 35 million copies sold. Based on the authority of the British National Corpus and the Oxford English Corpus. The dictionary that develops your language skills.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF "ON TYRANNY" COMES A STUNNING NEW CHRONICLE OF THE RISE OF AUTHORITARIANISM FROM RUSSIA TO EUROPE AND AMERICA.
This is the most comprehensive and realistic guide to Windows Server 2012 planning, design, prototyping, implementation, migration, administration, and support. Extensively updated, it contains unsurpassed independent and objective coverage of Windows Server 2012’s key innovations.
Blackface minstrelsy, the nineteenth-century performance practice in which ideas and images of blackness were constructed and theatricalized by and for whites, continues to permeate contemporary popular music and its audience. Harriet J. Manning argues that this legacy is nowhere more evident than with Michael Jackson in whom minstrelsy's gestures and tropes are embedded.
An evidence-based guide to delivering high performance. Armstrong's Handbook of Performance Management addresses all areas of performance management. From setting objectives and giving feedback to managing underperformers and having difficult conversations...
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World. Revised edition with new material. By Tony Wagner, author of The Global Achievement Gap, with video content produced by Robert A. Compton.
The Creating Corporate Cultures Series: Making organizations dynamic, exciting places in which productivity, innovation, and even joy can flourish—with cutting-edge ideas from practitioners in the field—books in the series are sure to spark thought and action, bringing benefits straight to the bottom line.
Think you know the real Tina? Think again. Here’s the real story. And love's got everything to do with it.
'He has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know.’ The Queen pays tribute to Prince Philip on their golden wedding anniversary
The Real Story of My Mother and Me. "My feelings about my mother and about our relationship are so confused that to write them down with clarity would mean I had them all figured out, which I do not." — BROOKE SHIELDS'S DIARY, 1984
Nicholas Lash shows how the main contours of the Christian doctrine of God may be mapped onto principal features of our culture and its predicaments. Nicholas Lash considers three dimensions of our contemporary predicament: globalization, a crisis of language, and the pain and darkness of the world, in relation to the doctrine of God as Spirit, Word, and Father.
An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People. By Joe Navarro with Marvin Karlins, Ph.D.
THIS STORY OF AN INSPIRING BOND BETWEEN TWO UNFORGETTABLE WOMEN IS ALSO A HUMOROUS AND HEARTFELT EXPLORATION OF INDIA, COWS, FOOD, CULTURE - AND OUR DEEP CONNECTION TO THE ANIMALS WHO LIVE AMONG US.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. UNCOVERING THE REAL CAUSES OF DEPRESSION - AND THE UNEXPECTED SOLUTIONS.
THE REVEALING STORY OF DAVID MISCAVIGE’S CHILDHOOD AND HIS PATH TO THE HEAD SEAT OF THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY, AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HIS FATHER, RON MISCAVIGE.
CONTAINS A BONUS SHORT STORY. Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. But in a town where privacy is impossible, there is a secret so awful that Todd, still a month shy of being a man, must run for his life...
In Agile Testing, Crispin and Gregory define agile testing and illustrate the tester’s role with examples from real agile teams. They teach you how to use the agile testing quadrants to identify what testing is needed, who should do it, and what tools might help...
From the bestselling author of IT NEVER SNOWS IN SEPTEMBER. Dramatic and heart-rending, this is the story of ordinary people struggling to cope as their street in Arnhem is overwhelmed in a savage and bloody conflict in September 1944.
