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In the Nineteenth Century people could gain fame and fortune by
"discovering" and documenting things that were already known to
exist like the source of the Nile and the North Pole. For decades
trappers and prospectors had told about the wonders of the area
that became Yellowstone Park, but no credible person had written
about the falls canyons and geysers there. An ambitious politician,
Nathaniel P. Langford, decided to make his name by promoting an
expedition and publicizing its activities in 1870. An army
lieutenant named Gustavus Doane maneuvered to lead the expedition's
army escort for the same reason. Their written accounts of the big
"discovery" of Wonderland were the basis for the park's founding in
1872.This book brings together the words of these men and provides
historical context for the exploration and for the founding of
America's first national park.
How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income
communities of the developing world? How can these communities
build greater resilience against economic uncertainties, natural
disasters, wars, and the growing threats of climate change? This
book reviews the research literature of economic development in
low-income communities of the developing world-from rural villages
to neighborhoods in the largest cities on earth. This book is
unique in gathering, organizing, and synthesizing research on
economic development at the community level, across the developing
world, drawing from multiple disciplines, publications,
methodologies, regions, and countries. Part I provides an overview
and context of the many challenges facing the developing world
today, as well as the often-heated debates over what "development"
is and how to make it happen. Part II reviews the extensive
research literature in major fields of community economic
development including education and human capital, overcoming the
"curse of natural resources," entrepreneurship and micro-finance,
tourism, and sustainability. The audience includes undergraduate
students interested in development and sustainability, graduate
students and other young researchers in a wide range of disciplines
who are finding their own focuses, and established researchers who
wish to expand their agendas. An expanded bibliography accompanies
the book as a downloadable supplement.
How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income
communities of the developing world? How can these communities
build greater resilience against economic uncertainties, natural
disasters, wars, and the growing threats of climate change? This
book reviews the research literature of economic development in
low-income communities of the developing world-from rural villages
to neighborhoods in the largest cities on earth. This book is
unique in gathering, organizing, and synthesizing research on
economic development at the community level, across the developing
world, drawing from multiple disciplines, publications,
methodologies, regions, and countries. Part I provides an overview
and context of the many challenges facing the developing world
today, as well as the often-heated debates over what "development"
is and how to make it happen. Part II reviews the extensive
research literature in major fields of community economic
development including education and human capital, overcoming the
"curse of natural resources," entrepreneurship and micro-finance,
tourism, and sustainability. The audience includes undergraduate
students interested in development and sustainability, graduate
students and other young researchers in a wide range of disciplines
who are finding their own focuses, and established researchers who
wish to expand their agendas. An expanded bibliography accompanies
the book as a downloadable supplement.
For millions of Americans, the COVID shock has brought retirement
saving to an abrupt halt-now it's time to get back on track. Even
before the pandemic, a large share of households by Americans over
age 50 faced the threat that their living standards would decline
sharply in retirement. In the wake of COVID-19, these numbers will
surely worsen. In Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial
Strategies for Getting Back on Track, finance writer and regular
New York Times retirement contributor Mark Miller offers practical
strategies for Americans to improve their retirement prospects. If
you're nearing retirement age and worry you haven't saved enough,
Retirement Reboot will walk you through the core decisions to make
now to improve your retirement outcomes-even if retirement is just
a few years away. You'll learn how to make a plan, think through
the timing of retirement, optimize Social Security, navigate
Medicare, build savings, and tap home equity. You'll also explore
ongoing strategies, such as careful budgeting, generating income
from work even after retirement, planning for long-term care, and
leveraging special assistance aimed at low-income workers. If you
have low savings, or none at all, Miller's simple steps can help
you make the most of your remaining working years and reboot the
retirement you always imagined.
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access to any online entitlements included with the product. Ace
the Major HVAC Licensing Exams! Featuring more than 800 accurate
practice questions and answers, HVAC Licensing Study Guide, Third
Edition, provides everything you need to prepare for and pass the
major HVAC licensing exams. This highly-effective, career-building
study resource is filled with essential calculations,
troubleshooting tips for the job site, hundreds of detailed
illustrations, and information on the latest codes and standards.
You will get brand-new coverage of troubleshooting for small motors
and electrical equipment for HVAC. This thoroughly revised study
guide helps you: *Master the material most likely to appear on the
ARI, NATE, ICE, RSES, and HVAC licensing exams *Improve your
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Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and
practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests
can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing
about his explorations of love, sex and gender. Partly through
fresh readings of the Consolation of Philosophy and the Romance of
the Rose, Miller charts Chaucer's position in relation to the
association in the Christian West between problems of autonomy and
problems of sexuality and reconstructs how medieval philosophers
and literary writers approached psychological phenomena often
thought of as distinctively modern. The literary experiments of the
Canterbury Tales represent a distinctive philosophical achievement
that remains vital to our own attempts to understand agency, desire
and their histories.
Mark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales represent an extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and
practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests
can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing
about his explorations of love, sex, and gender. Partly through
fresh readings of the Consolation of Philosophy and the Romance of
the Rose, Miller charts Chaucer's relation to the association in
the Christian West between problems of autonomy and problems of
sexuality, and reconstructs how medieval philosophers and poets
approached psychological phenomena often thought of as the
exclusive province of psychoanalysis. The literary experiments of
the Canterbury Tales represent a distinctive philosophical
achievement that remains vital to our own attempts to understand
agency, desire, and their histories.
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need for health
professionals to communicate more clearly about what public health
is and why it matters. Public health in the United States has been
underfunded, undervalued, and misunderstood largely because of the
unclear and inconsistent way health leaders talk about it. Talking
Health is intended to help public health and allied professionals
communicate about public health more effectively - whether they
need to reach policymakers, community partners, the media, or the
public. Many people who are trained in medicine or public health
have never had to "sell" ideas or policies to uninformed or
skeptical partners, but the insights, tools, and resources included
in this book can provide a first step toward better communications
and stronger partnerships. This book is based on original research
and insights by social scientists and seasoned communications
professionals at the FrameWorks Institute and Hattaway
Communications. It provides practical tools such as tested
messaging and effective metaphors to help professionals avoid
messages that backfire, answer challenging questions, reframe
public health assumptions, and draw on the power of anecdotes while
sharing important data. Drawing together leading experts across
media and public health, Talking Health is a practical and powerful
starting point for those ready to change how public health is
viewed and valued in our nation.
If you work with SharePoint, you may have discovered that there
are countless tricks for using this platform to solve real-world
problems--and you certainly wouldn't mind learning some of them.
That's the purpose behind EndUserSharePoint, a community site that
lets end users share ingenious new ways for putting SharePoint to
work.
This insightful and entertaining book presents a compilation of
popular, well-written articles from the site, published by
contributors for people who use SharePoint at their companies but
don't have access to its technical server side. Each engaging story
puts you into the narrative as a participant, rather than a passive
observer, so you can easily visualize the situation and share the
"aha " solution with the author. Learn some tricks, gain some
insight--and have fun doing it.
These articles will help you: Build a documented framework for
evaluating whether your company is getting the most value from
SharePoint Create documentation and script management with OneNote
and a SharePoint library Use the Data View Web Part to create
hyperlinks from existing SharePoint data Implement data
visualization in SharePoint without access to the server Creating
document libraries with mixed content sources in any SharePoint
version Pull information from disparate site collections into a
single navigation system
Contributors include: Sadalit Van Buren Kerri Abraham Jim Bob
Howard Marc D. Anderson Laura Rogers Waldek Mastykarz Alexander
Bautz Dessie Lunsford Eric Alexander Peter Allen
"What a fantastic resource. No other book in the SharePoint
community hits this 'power user' or 'end user' audience like this
book does. There are powerful examples in here that will really
solve business problems and set the reader on the right track."
--Joel Oleson, Global SharePoint Evangelist, and one of the first
SharePoint architects
This short, easy-to-read fable reveals the five habits that
underlie leadership character and that determine leaders' success -
and teaches leaders how to develop these habits. Like Mark Miller's
previous books, this one follows the life, learning, and influence
of Debbie Bruster. Here she finds herself mentoring Blake Brown,
the son of her former mentor. Rather than answer Blake's questions
about leadership directly, Debbie introduces him to other leaders,
each of whom shares a unique perspective on what really makes a
leader successful. As Blake puts the pieces together, he discovers
his problem is not one of skills but of character, that leadership
is more about the heart of the leader than the head or hands. In
fact, Miller summarized these traits with the acronym HEART: Hunger
for Wisdom, Expect the Best, Accept Responsibility, Respond with
Courage, and Think Others First. With the help of his new friends
and mentors, Blake is able to build a plan to transform his heart.
The good news for all of us: leadership is not just the purview of
the few - it is within reach for millions of aspiring leaders
around the world. This book is the road map they need to get their
lives and careers on track.
As organizations grow, the demands on leadership change. The same
old moves won't cut it any more. In Chess Not Checkers, Miller
tells the story of Blake Brown, newly appointed CEO of a company
troubled by poor performance and low morale. Nothing Blake learned
from his previous job seems to help him deal with the issues he now
faces. The problem, his new mentor points out, is Blake is playing
checkers - he needs to play chess or he's going to lose. The early
days of an organization are like checkers: a quick game with mostly
interchangeable pieces. Everybody does a little bit of everything,
the leader included, and things are so frantic you just have to
react as fast as you can. But as the organization expands, you
can't just keep jumping from activity to activity. You have to
think strategically, look ahead, leverage every employee's specific
talents. That's chess. And this approach creates unprecedented
levels of performance. Adapting four strategies from the game of
chess, Miller reveals four moves high-performance organizations
make. They bet on leadership, act as one, win the heart, and excel
at execution. Chess Not Checkers is an accessible and easily
applied guide to help leaders elevate their own leadership and the
performance of their entire team.
Escape the mediocrity that ensnares so many in business and become
a better, more effective leader. Have you ever wondered what it
would take to be a better leader, or achieve your wildest dreams,
or make a bigger difference in the world? The answer lies in the
choices you make: about everything from how you spend your time to
the way you view the world. Smart Leadership is the latest
essential business title from internationally bestselling author of
Win the Heart and Chess Not Checkers Mark Miller. In this book, he
shares the four research-based "smart choices" the best leaders
make to scale their influence and results. By teaching you how to
Confront Reality, Grow Capacity, Fuel Curiosity, and Create Change,
Miller will help you: Bring fresh eyes and fresh thinking to your
leadership approach. Increase your confidence in your ability to
make a difference. Lead at levels you never thought possible.
Accelerate your learning curve so that all these benefits come
faster and more naturally. With this guide, your leadership-and
your life-will be transformed forever.
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Erfahrungen und praxisorientierte Losungsansatze fur die besonderen
Herausforderungen von Familienunternehmen standen im Mittelpunkt
des ersten Kongresses fur Familienunternehmer im deutschsprachigen
Raum. In diesem Buch werden die Vortrage, Diskussionsforen und
Podiumsdiskussionen dokumentiert und um zusatzliche nutzliche
Informationen erganzt.
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