For courses in sales management. Sales Management, 1/e is the only book on the market that prepares students to become effective sales managers in today's hyper-competitive, global economy-by integrating current technology, research, and strategic thinking activities.

"Words for Today" is a collection of sixty individual poems, each with its own applicable message, that, taken together, present a book of inspirations and heartfelt encouragement from one person living the Christian life to and for another. Dr. Earl Stewart, Jr., a physician by formal training who also authored "Precious Memories: Reflections for Christian Living," takes the quiet thoughts and pinings of the everyday Christian, sets them to poetic verse, and the skies crack open, the sun shines gingerly over the waters of our lives, and we are inspired always. This book would be an excellent accompaniment to your everyday quiet times, an added blessing to your personal devotions, and is just for anyone who is seeking a profoundly inspirational book of poetry.

Emergency Vehicle Operations: A Line Officer's Guide is an all-inclusive, hands-on training/reference guide in compliance with the most recent version of the IADLEST Law Enforcement Driver Training Reference Guide. Chapter-opening Objectives summarize each book chapter to help students understand the material. Chapter-ending Review Questions reinforce the concepts. Two completely new chapters cover challenges of great concern to modern Law Enforcement: Lawsuits: This is a concern of every line officer. This chapter instructs officers as to how to prepare in the event a lawsuit is initiated, providing clear-cut guidelines for testifying at trials and depositions. Risk Management: This chapter provides a framework for installing an agency-wide, vehicle operation Risk Management Program. All book material is policy driven, in the context of an agency's own policy. You train using this book, and you train to your own policy. A Policy Worksheet Appendix provides an invaluable, step-by-step walk-through to help ensure a complete understanding of the material. A Glossary enables officers to understand vehicular jargon and all related terminology.A complete Index makes using the book quick and easy. This emergency vehicle bible sets the standard for line officer training. It helps officers take the skills learned in training and correctly apply them to the nitty-gritty, emotionally charged street atmosphere, so that they can sort out and make the right decisions under fire. This book is a must for every training classroom, and should be kept in the glove compartment of every emergency vehicle. *The free accompanying Instructor's Manual helps key the book to IADLEST's Reference Guide

Considering a broad range of fundamental factors and conditions influencing the optimum design and operation of machinery, the Handbook of Machinery Dynamics emphasizes the force and motion analysis of machine components in multiple applications. Serves as an essential guidebook for machinery design and development-with practical methods, approaches, and solutions to machinery dynamics Containing details on basic theories and particular problems, the Handbook of Machinery Dynamics reviews machine design for selecting the most appropriate energy transfer mechanisms elaborates on vibration operations, from the frictionless spring-mass system and systems with multiple degrees of freedom to translational and rotational systems develops and numerically illustrates rotordynamic expressions relating to spin speed, as well as whirl magnitude, speed, mode, and ratio examines fluid-structure interactions and ways to prevent structural damage through fluid machinery stall or cavitation calculates dynamic responses of machine tool and workpiece systems and analyzes the machine tool-cutting process as a nonlinear dynamic system offers forecasting methods for natural frequencies and mode shapes of blade-disk assemblies, and axial thrust loads on turbomachine bearings addresses damage control, maintenance requirements, and troubleshooting techniques for ensuring reliable machinery performance and more Illustrated with nearly 1000 helpful equations, drawings, photographs, tables, and literature references, the Handbook of Machinery Dynamics functions as an invaluable reference for mechanical, design, product, aerospace, automotive, systems, and test engineers; physicists; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Do you believe that everything happens for a reason, or that some supreme being plays a role in changing our lives? It is more complex than that. So many factors account for all changes that it is impossible to pinpoint the cause and effect in our ever-changing universe. For every action there are an infinite number of reactions. MOTHMAN RETURNS. "Suddenly, the gray-cloaked object began to unfold, as if it was in an imaginary shell, and was unwrapping its body in precise movements to reveal itself."

In life we sometimes struggle with challenging entities. It could be a person, a place or a thing. Even though the scenario is different, the principle is the same. Have you ever asked yourself, "How did I end up here once again?" "Why haven't things changed with this person, this place, or this thing?" 'We go through numerous matters over and over because we refuse to listen to what life teaches us. The cycle of specific trials and test stop when and only when the lesson is learned. Life Lessons by EJ provides original, thought-provoking quotes purposed to prompt discussions on the lessons in our lives in an EXPOSE, EXAMINE, EXECUTE format. While the antidote is owner specific, the resolution remains the same. The fact is you "must" take immediate action responding with urgency. Without any reservations, acknowledge and learn the lessons that are before you. You will be motivated, inspired and transformed.

As long as there are children in sports, there will be an endlessly supply of stories about crazy sports parents. Earl Austin Jr's lastest book, You Might Need a Jacket II: More Hilarious Stories of Wacky Sports Parents, is the second book in the Strait-Jacket Parent series which is dedicated to the obsessive behavior of sports parents. You Might Need A Jacket II contains more than 150 stories and anecdotes which chronicle the activities of "Strait-Jacket Parents," a term that best describes those overzealous mothers and fathers who yearn to have their children shine in the atheletic spotlight. If you enjoyed the first edition of You Might Need a Jacket, be prepared to laugh out loud at the many zany antics of our wonderful parents in "You Might Need a Jacket II."

Behind every successful, young athlete, there is a highly-motivated parent obsessed with the idea of their son or daughter becoming a big sports' star. Earl Austin, Jr.'s latest book, You Might Need a Jacket: Hilarious Stories of Wacky Sports Parents, is dedicated to those mothers, fathers and others who go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure their children's success in the athletic arena. You Might Need a Jacket: Hilarious Stories of Wacky Sports Parents contains nearly two hundred stories and little anecdotes, chronicling the activities of "Straitjacket Parents," a term created to describe overzealous sports' parents. Some stories may be hard to believe, but they are all true. They range from funny and cute to strange and truly bizarre. You Might Need a Jacket provides a small dose of what happens when parents' good intentions get the best of them.

Poetry of Peace + Love written from a Rock + Roll, a Sixties, A Seventies, and a Spiritual sensability from my Heart + Soul. Book One of a 3 Book Trilogy of Poetry.

Earl S. Johnson, Jr., explores eight biblical texts that have been instrumental in forming the basis of Presbyterian belief and mission. Using Reformed and Presbyterian principles of biblical interpretation--and the standards of modern biblical criticism, he examines Presbyterian theological statements and their influence on the development of the church's positions on social issues throughout history. With this important work, Johnson aims to help his readers avoid interpretative mistakes of the past and find insights into the way the Bible can be used correctly to lead the church in the future.

Although Henry Louis Gates examined the ways in which African slave language formed the metaphors for African American poetry and fiction in The Signifying Monkey, there have been no studies of the theological and ethical significance of the salutations of black Americans until now. In Dark Salutations, Riggins Earl examines black American's ethnocentric verbalized salutary expressions-"brotherman" and "sistergirl," for example-that dominate their ritualistic moments of social encounter. The noticeable religious content of some of these salutations drives us to examine blacks' understandings of God and brother/sisterhood challenges: Is God a respecter of persons? Or, have black people understood God to be "faithfully for them and with them" politically and spiritually? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" each other spiritually and politically? Have black people understood themselves to be "trustfully for and with" even the whites who oppressed them? Earl argues that these salutary expressions show how blacks have lived with the burdensome challenge of having to prove their sisterly and brotherly capacities, and with the insatiable desire to be treated as equal siblings in the family of God. .

Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. Of the three hundred-plus Americans who joined the British air corps in 1917, only Rogers and two dozen other volunteers became "aces" by shooting down five or more German planes. He himself claimed six "kills" in fighting during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Somme Offensive, Cambrai, Ypres-Lys, and six other major engagements.