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This is a practical guide to evaluating and addressing the
challenges of a distressed business - whether due to being
overleveraged, poorly managed, or is underperforming. The authors
provide practical advice, based on their involvement collectively
in more than 150 financially stressed businesses, on how to
maximize the value of a troubled business.
The abrupt collapse and dissolution of the Union of the Democratic
Centre (UCD), the party which governed Spain during the crucial
period of the transition to democracy (1977-82), is one of the most
extraordinary events in the history of European party politics.
This book develops an original theoretical framework for the study
of party institutionalisation, and draws on a wide range of
empirical sources to offer new insights into the causes of the
UCD's collapse.
As the North American church struggles to navigate the emerging
post-Christian context, Theodore J. Hopkins argues that the church
is identified by three fundamental relationships:
Christ-church-world. By attending to the Christological center of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology, Hopkins establishes a framework for
the church's mission in the world that flows from Christ's
relationship to the church and his relationship to the world. This
Christological framework also illuminates the changing relationship
between the church and the world in Bonhoeffer's works, such that
Discipleship seems to demarcate the church from the world while
Ethics seems to unite church and world in one Christ-reality.
Following Bonhoeffer, Hopkins contends that the church is both
distinct from the world and in solidarity with it in the dynamic of
the crucified Lord Jesus who took the form of a servant and is
present in Word, Sacrament, and community as the Risen One. Hopkins
envisions the church within the story of Jesus so that preaching
and teaching the Gospel identifies the church and calls it to
faithfulness in Christ's own mission. The church is formed to see
itself and the world in Jesus and enabled to follow Christ's
mission of witness and service in the world.
An indispensable guide to identification, ecology and study of
bumblebees. This new edition embraces the wealth of information
published on bumblebee life history, ecology, foraging, parasites
and conservation in recent years. It includes a new chapter on the
very real threats to bumblebees; their crucial role as pollinators
of our native flora and crops; ways to promote their survival;
advantages and problems posed by their commercial use; as well as
updated colour plates, keys and distribution maps of all British
species (including Bombus hypnorum). The book introduces techniques
and approaches to original work so that anyone with an interest can
usefully contribute to furthering our understanding and
appreciation of these wonderful and important insects.
This book gives readers the key to attaining a sculpted body
without wasting their efforts in the gym. It explains the
principles of the Macrobolic Nutrition plan, which can be used to
get bigger, leaner, and healthier. Readers will gain an
understanding of the impact food has on the many biochemical
processes in the body that influence muscle growth and fat burning.
For those that have trained hard but have been unhappy with the
results, this book can make the difference.
Each year as high school solo and ensemble festivals approach,
choir directors and voice teachers search for the right songs for
their students to sing. There is so much music available for young
developing voices, but how can an overworked teacher keep track of
it all? Songs for Young Singers, a careful review of more than
2,000 songs printed in over 70 anthologies, has been written to
address the needs of choir directors and voice teachers of junior
high and high school age students. Section I lists songs by title
as well as the anthologies in which they are found . Teachers
wishing to explore the works of a particular composer will turn to
section II, where songs are listed by composer. In section III, IV,
and V, the songs are categorized by Beginning, Intermediate, and
Advanced levels for Quick reference. Section VI lists the
anthologies reviewed with a detailed description of the vocal
demand of each song in the anthology. The songs have been evaluated
on seven criteria: melodic contour (including range), phrase
length, language, rhythm, accompaniment, harmonic language, and
dynamics, and are listed by title, composer, and level of
difficulty.
Priming your body to build muscle and burn fat. Learn about food's
effect on the biochemical processes that influencemuscle growth and
fat burning.
The long-standing Kervaire invariant problem in homotopy theory
arose from geometric and differential topology in the 1960s and was
quickly recognised as one of the most important problems in the
field. In 2009 the authors of this book announced a solution to the
problem, which was published to wide acclaim in a landmark Annals
of Mathematics paper. The proof is long and involved, using many
sophisticated tools of modern (equivariant) stable homotopy theory
that are unfamiliar to non-experts. This book presents the proof
together with a full development of all the background material to
make it accessible to a graduate student with an elementary
algebraic topology knowledge. There are explicit examples of
constructions used in solving the problem. Also featuring a
motivating history of the problem and numerous conceptual and
expository improvements on the proof, this is the definitive
account of the resolution of the Kervaire invariant problem.
This Naturalists' Handbook aims to attract more people to the study
of solitary wasps by describing the ecology, distribution and
natural history of these insects, including all relevant research
in one convenient volume. Contents include an overview of the
natural history of the solitary wasp, guidelines on identification,
and advice on techniques and approaches to study. Further reading,
a systematic checklist of genera and an alphabetical checklist of
species and their distributions are included. Detailed keys to the
identification of the species form the centre of the book and the
text is accompanied by clear illustrations throughout, making this
an invaluable practical guide for anyone seeking to broaden their
knowledge of these fascinating, diverse creatures. Smaller, gentler
and less intimidating than the black and yellow social wasps, the
solitary wasps are attractive because of their bright colours and
their fascinating behaviour. A female wasp will construct a nest,
excavating it from wood or sand or building it from mud. She
provisions the nest with prey, hunting down a suitable creature,
perhaps a caterpillar or a fly, which she will paralyse before
dragging it home to the nest. She lays her egg on the paralysed
prey, and the larva when it hatches feeds on the prey. On a sunny
day it is easy to observe the apparently purposeful behaviour of
female wasps as they prepare their nests and stock them with food
for the next generation. This book is a digital reprint of ISBN
0-85546-295-7 (1995). Naturalists' Handbooks encourage and enable
those interested in natural history to undertake field study, make
accurate identifications and to make original contributions to
research.
The definitive work on the structure and capabilities of the organ
throughout history, presenting a discussion of the organ's wind
collecting and sound-producing portions as well as tuning and pitch
and the individual characteristics of hundreds of organs in
existence in famous cathedrals and elsewhere. The book also
includes details on the structure and capabilities of the organ,
with specifications and suggestive details for instruments of all
sizes, intended as a handbook for the organist and the amateur.
Edward J. Hopkins was Organist to the Honourable Societies of the
Inner and Middle Temple. When originally published in 1877 this
work contained an introduction, New History of the Organ by Edward
F. Rimbault, which has now been published as a separate book
instead of being included in this edition.
In a campaign for state or local office these days, you're as
likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced
Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues
affecting the state or local community. This is because American
political behavior has become substantially more nationalized.
American voters are far more engaged with and knowledgeable about
what's happening in Washington, DC, than in similar messages
whether they are in the South, the Northeast, or the Midwest. Gone
are the days when all politics was local. With The Increasingly
United States, Daniel J. Hopkins explores this trend and its
implications for the American political system. The change is
significant in part because it works against a key rationale of
America's federalist system, which was built on the assumption that
citizens would be more strongly attached to their states and
localities. It also has profound implications for how voters are
represented. If voters are well informed about state politics, for
example, the governor has an incentive to deliver what voters--or
at least a pivotal segment of them--want. But if voters are likely
to back the same party in gubernatorial as in presidential
elections irrespective of the governor's actions in office,
governors may instead come to see their ambitions as tethered more
closely to their status in the national party.
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Thrips (Paperback)
William D.J. Kirk; Illustrated by Anthony J. Hopkins
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R601
Discovery Miles 6 010
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
The Sandman: His Sea Stories includes 21 stories about life at sea.
These stories were written by William J. Hopkins, who read them to
his own children to help them fall asleep.
The Sandman's farm stories by William Hopkins consists of 21
stories of a little boy around the farm, including such everyday
tasks as grinding corn, making cider, fetching water, growing
wheat, and boiling maple syrup. Many black and white illustrations
are also included, although they are scanned from an out-of-print
book so they are not top-notch in terms of print quality. The
Sandman series by William Hopkins was written to help his young son
go to sleep. Although the series starts with the farm, later
volumes told stories about a ship and its voyages at sea, while
another told about building a house.
Political Polarization in American Politics provides short,
accessible chapters about the nature and extent of political
polarization within the American public and in American political
institutions. These chapters capture the central ideas and debates
in political science research on polarization, and are written by
leading scholars in this subfield. Each chapter is accompanied by
discussion questions and a guide to further reading, making this a
great addition to any course looking at issues of polarization.
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