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Volunteers are the backbone of many an organization. This
practical, hands-on guide, filled with useful tips and everyday
examples, will help those responsible for volunteers successfully
recruit and manage this invaluable resource. Anyone who supervises
volunteers will find this book an indispensable guide for
navigating the intricacies of managing unpaid workers. Underlying
the content is the message that volunteers are a vital part of an
organization's workforce and should be treated as valuable members
of the team. Volunteers can work alongside paid staff members to
help the organization run smoothly and efficiently-and cost
effectively. The book is packed with easily implemented advice and
proven techniques for successfully handling common situations.
Concise and easy to read, it assumes neither previous volunteer
management experience nor familiarity with business practices, yet
even experienced volunteer managers will come away with fresh ideas
and new approaches. To augment her own expertise and increase the
diversity of viewpoints, the author interviewed volunteer managers
from various types of organizations and shares their stories.
Quotes and anecdotes throughout the book help readers relate to
common problems and illustrate the challenges and rewards of
managing volunteers.
This entertaining and highly readable book gives anyone writing in
the sciences a clear and easy-to-follow guide to the English
language. English is often regarded as one of the most difficult
languages to master. Yet while the English language has a
vocabulary of upwards of 500,000 words, it only uses nine parts of
speech, and all of these words fall into one (or more) of those
nine categories. Scientific English: A Guide for Scientists and
Other Professionals, Third Edition contains many simple revelations
like this that make effective scientific writing in English easy,
even for those whose fluency is in another language. The book is
organized around a basic guide to English grammar that is
specifically tailored to the needs of scientists, science writers,
science educators, and science students. The authors explain the
goals of scientific writing, the role of style, and the various
kinds of writing in the sciences, then provide a basic guide to the
fundamentals of English and address problem areas such as
redundancies, abbreviations and acronyms, jargon, and foreign
terms. Email, online publishing, blogs, and writing for the Web are
covered as well. This book is designed to be an enlightening and
entertaining read that can then be retained as a practical
scientific writing reference guide. Includes cartoons and humorous
illustrations that help reinforce important concepts Provides a
glossary that allows readers to easily reference the meanings of
grammatical terms used in the book Incorporates a wide variety of
quotations to provide humor, make points, or reinforce key concepts
Includes an entire chapter on electronic media as well as new
material on self-editing
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Beach Fun (Paperback)
Nancy Sakaduski
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Beach Life (Paperback)
Nancy Sakaduski
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R400
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A Lewes ABC (Paperback)
Nancy Sakaduski
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From swooping seagulls to frolicking dolphins, the familiar sights
and sounds of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware are captured in this
charming book, which children will beg to read again and again. The
delightful rhyming text is complemented by amusing illustrations of
children on the kiddie rides, sipping snow cones, examining
jellyfish, and even reluctantly taking a nap. The book opens with
"A is for arcade," which depicts a little boy gleefully whacking
moles as tickets spew from the machine. Each page features a
different letter of the alphabet and highlights a favorite feature
of summer in Rehoboth. Children will identify with such familiar
scenes as choosing taffy in a candy store, packing for a day at the
beach, building a sandcastle, and watching the family umbrella spin
down the beach, chased by a frantic dad. The brightly colored
drawings are intentionally inclusive, so African-American, Asian,
and disabled children, as well as children of same-sex parents,
will all see themselves taking part in the fun. A Rehoboth ABC is
geared for children ages 2-8, but could easily be enjoyed by both
younger and older children, as well as their parents and
grandparents. Residents and vacationers alike will want to make
this part of their home library, to enjoy any time a burst of
summer happiness is desired.
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