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Charlie Parker is an African Gray Parrot. He entered the life of
Debby and Michael Smith three decades ago when, at the insistence
of their young son, Eli, they brought him home from a downtown
Manhattan bird shop. He has been an integral, and voluble, member
of the family ever since. Charlie's vocabulary is astonishingly
diverse and colorful. He can be demanding, squawking imperiously
"Clean my cage" or "Want some water." He can be brutally direct,
warning an aggressive business associate who had been yelling at
Debby "I'm going to kick your ass, you sonofabitch." He can be
mischievous, making meowing noises to a neighbor's confused dog in
the elevator. Charlie is a survivor. He ended up recovering on an
IV after the collapse of the World Trade Center filled the Smiths'
apartment with toxic dust. He is often an entertainer, with a
songbook that extends across "Home on the Range" to "The Yellow
Rose of Texas." And most of the time he is affectionate, often
hanging upside down against the side of his cage and demanding to
be tickled. In encountering Charlie's tales in this concise and
charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent and
loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian
scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg points out in her
introduction, they cannot meaningfully be owned by humans but only
enjoyed as companions.
Cost Management: A Strategic Emphasis, by Blocher/Juras/Smith is
dedicated to answering the question: Why Cost Management? It
answers this question by providing cost-management tools and
techniques needed to support an organization's competitiveness,
improve its performance, and help the organization accomplish its
strategy. The text is written to help students understand the
broader role of cost accounting in helping an organization succeed
- not just the measurement of costs. While the text does include
coverage of traditional costing topics (e.g., job-order costing,
process costing, service-department cost allocations, and
accounting for joint and by-products), its primary strength is the
linkage of these topics, as well as more contemporary topics, to an
organization's strategy. And with Connect, an easy-to-use homework
and learning management solution that embeds learning science and
award-winning adaptive tools to improve student outcomes,
instructors receive a course solution that includes high quality
content and assessment paired with assignments that help students
build the skills they need to succeed.
Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide
for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client
diversity-ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality,
religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability
status-can impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback.
Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity
and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician,
client, interpersonal, and professional factors within the
assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful
volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in
which individuals' personal characteristics, backgrounds, and
viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the
personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for
clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of
diversity in assessment.
Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions
from some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of
public policy analysis including Beryl Radin, David Weimer, Rebecca
Maynard, Laurence Lynn, and Guy Peters. This volume represents an
indispensable companion to other volumes in the International
Library of Policy Analysis series, enabling scholars to compare
cross-nationally concepts and practices of public policy analysis
in the media, sub-national governments, and many more institutional
settings. The volume represents an invaluable contribution to
public policy analysis and can be used widely in teaching at both
graduate and undergraduate levels in schools of public affairs and
public policy as well as in comparative politics and policy.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book
explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across
liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and
social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism,
existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and
post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and
practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also
relating to gender and multiculturalism. It will be of interest to
academics and postgraduate students across a range of social
studies disciplines.
Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide
for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client
diversity-ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality,
religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability
status-can impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback.
Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity
and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician,
client, interpersonal, and professional factors within the
assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful
volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in
which individuals' personal characteristics, backgrounds, and
viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the
personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for
clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of
diversity in assessment.
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Wives Who Pray (Paperback)
Annie Brown; Cover design or artwork by Steven Smith; Contributions by Marques Aaron Brown
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R441
Discovery Miles 4 410
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In addition to its thorough coverage of DSP design and programming
techniques, Smith also covers the operation and usage of DSP chips.
He uses Analog Devices' popular DSP chip family as design examples.
Also included on the companion website is technical info on DSP
processors from the four major manufacturers (Analog Devices, Texas
Instruments, Motorola, and Lucent) and other DSP software.
*Covers all major DSP topics
*Full of insider information and shortcuts
*Basic techniques and algorithms explained without complex numbers
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