Hey, manager: please shut up already Too many new managers, often promoted from the best of the front-line workers, lack the basic ability to interact effectively-speaking when they should be listening, and listening... well, not much. And when it comes to more advanced skills like improving worker performance, maximizing productivity, handling customers, and driving real success with their products, all bets are off. With no real background or training in management skills, today's managers-even with experience-too often struggle to engage with their teams, maximize performance, and achieve great results.

Here's the newer manager's greatest ally: a quick-start guide that rapidly and accessibly covers the essential skills that good managers need to lead their teams effectively. Building on the simplest possible foundation-"Shut Up and Listen "-this guide collects over 250 hints, tips, and tricks developed by an experienced manager and leader over more than a quarter century of technical management. Take your management career from zero to sixty-or discover how to lead your team to the next level-with one quick and easy read.

Innovations in Adolescent Substance Abuse Interventions focuses on developmentally appropriate approaches to the assessment, prevention, or treatment of substance use problems among adolescents. Organized into 16 chapters, this book begins with an assessment of adolescent substance use; theory, methods, and effectiveness of a drug abuse prevention approach; and problem behavior prevention programming for schools and community groups. Some chapters follow on the community-, family- and school-based interventions for adolescents with substance use problems. Other chapters explain psychopharmacological therapy; the assertive aftercare protocol for adolescent substance abusers; and twelve-step-based interventions for adolescents.

Die Bibliothek der Historischen Gesellschaft von Johann Gustav Droysen bildet den altesten Bestandteil der Zweigbibliothek Geschichte der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. Diese Buchersammlung wurde ab 1860 angelegt und stellte nach Droysens Tod am 19. Juni 1884 den ersten umfangreichen geschlossenen Bucherfundus dar, der an die Bibliothek des durch Julius Weizsacker am 30. Januar 1885 gegrundeten Historischen Seminars gelangte.Ihre Ruckerschliessung machte aufwendige Untersuchungen am Bestand selbst notig. Wenn als Ergebnis nun zum 200. Geburtstag Johann Gustav Droysens ein Katalog der einstigen Bibliothek seiner Historischen Gesellschaft vorgelegt werden kann, so versteht sich dieser in erster Linie als wissenschaftshistorischer Beitrag zu den Anfangen des Historischen Seminars und seiner Bibliothek, im weiteren Sinn aber auch als Reminiszenz an die reiche Tradition der Berliner Alma Mater, nicht zuletzt im Hinblick auf ihr bevorstehendes Jubilaum 2010."

Band 2 der Reihe "Europa im Mittelalter" die Untersuchung von Wolfgang E. Wagner behandelt den menschlichen Versuch, uber den Tod hinaus in Erinnerung zu bleiben. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Kloster, Spitaler, Dom- und Kollegiatkirchen gestiftet. Aber auch Universitaten wurden in frommer Absicht gegrundet. Zumindest die Universitatsstiftungen im Alten Reich, in Prag, Wien, Heidelberg, Koln, Freiburg und Basel, gehen nicht zuletzt auch auf religiose Motive ihrer Stifter zuruck und stellen somit fromme Werke bzw. Seelenheilstiftungen dar. In dieser Studie geht es nicht allein darum, die in der Universitatsgeschichtsforschung bisher weitgehend unterbelichtete Stiftermemoria der Hohen Schulen zu beschreiben. Vielmehr werden vergleichend die strukturellen Auswirkungen der durch Stiftung begrundeten wechselseitigen sozialen Beziehungen zwischen dem Stifter und seiner Grundung untersucht."

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of what had been lush forests and wild rivers were to all appearances destroyed. Ecologists thought they would have to wait years, or even decades, for life to return to the mountain, but when forest scientist Jerry Franklin helicoptered into the blast area a couple of weeks after the eruption, he found small plants bursting through the ash and animals skittering over the ground. Stunned, he realized he and his colleagues had been thinking of the volcano in completely the wrong way. Rather than being a dead zone, the mountain was very much alive. Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists ever since, and in After the Blast Eric Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals Franklin saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.

Hey, manager: please shut up already Too many new managers, often promoted from the best of the front-line workers, lack the basic ability to interact effectively-speaking when they should be listening, and listening... well, not much. And when it comes to more advanced skills like improving worker performance, maximizing productivity, handling customers, and driving real success with their products, all bets are off. With no real background or training in management skills, today's managers-even with experience-too often struggle to engage with their teams, maximize performance, and achieve great results.

Here's the newer manager's greatest ally: a quick-start guide that rapidly and accessibly covers the essential skills that good managers need to lead their teams effectively. Building on the simplest possible foundation-"Shut Up and Listen "-this guide collects over 250 hints, tips, and tricks developed by an experienced manager and leader over more than a quarter century of technical management. Take your management career from zero to sixty-or discover how to lead your team to the next level-with one quick and easy read.

Most of us wouldn't think to look for penguins in a hot desert, but every year along a windswept edge of coastal Patagonia, hundreds of thousands of Magellanic penguins gather to rear their young at Punta Tombo, Argentina. It is the largest penguin colony in the world outside of Antarctica, and for the past three decades, biologist Dee Boersma has followed them there. Eric Wagner joined her team for six months in 2008, and in Penguins in the Desert, he chronicles that season in the remarkable lives of both the Magellanic penguins of Punta Tombo and the scientists who track their every move. For Boersma, the penguins are ecosystem sentinels. At the colony's peak, more than a million birds bred there, but now less than half as many do. In confronting this fact, Boersma tackles some of the most urgent issues facing penguins and people today. What is the best way to manage our growing appetite for fish? How do we stop catastrophic oil spills from coating birds? How will we address the looming effects of climate change? As Wagner spends more and more time with the penguins and the scientists in the field, other equally pressing questions come to mind. What is it like to be beaten by a penguin? Or bitten by one? How can a person be so dirty for so many months on end? In a tale that is as much about life in the field as it is about one of the most charismatic creatures on earth, Wagner brings humor, warmth, and hard-won insight as he tries to find the answer to what turns out to be the most pressing question of all: What does it mean to know an animal and to grapple with the consequences of that knowing?