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A Daily Dose of Scripture Does the Spirit Good
As a young adult, you face specific opportunities and challenges.
Maintaining a Christian approach to life while you carve your personal
niche and build a career or family environment isn’t easy.
Do you ever wish someone would write you a letter with life
instructions?
Originally written to his children and grandchildren,A.T. Scott, who
has taught Bible studies for more than 50 years, handpicked these 365
messages to help you survive and thrive as a believer in today’s
culture by pairing daily Scripture passages with practical suggestions
and applications for everyday life.
New technologies, with their practical contributions, provide
social value. The chapters in this volume view this social value
from a program evaluation perspective, and the focus of the
evaluations is the generation of new technology funded by public
sector agencies. Through keen and approachable analysis, the
authors provide important background on both methodology and
application. Link and Scott have assembled a collection of their
seminal works on the social value of new technology. The first
paper provides a general, hands-on overview of the theory and
practice of program evaluation, while remaining chapters go on to
focus on a number of public sector programs ranging from the U.S.
Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program to
Canada's programs to support the development of medical imaging
technology. The authors demonstrate that this area of research is
relevant not only to established scholars and practitioners, but
also to students. This book will serve as a valuable resource to
academic researchers and graduate students in public
administration, public policy, and economics, as well as
practitioners in the evaluation field. Contributors include: S.D.
Allen, D.B. Audretsch, B.M. Downs, L.M. Hillier, D.P. Leech, S.K.
Layson, A.N. Link, A.C. O'Connor, J.T. Scott
For a new generation...a new take on an ageless truth.Dr. Earl Lee
addressed these peace-stealers many years ago in his classic Cycle
of Victorious Living, which has sold more than 100,000 copies. The
cycle he identified continues to motivate, reassure, and inspire
today.Scott Daniels, now pastor of the same church Dr. Lee led long
ago, uncovers once again these truths from Psalm 37 and shares them
in a new voice for today's reader.Dr. Lee's original book is
printed in its entirety in the back, and study and reflection
questions suitable for small groups or personal use are included in
the new revision of the original.Whichever version touches and
inspires you, know that you will discover the secrets to living
above the turmoil and challenges we face today. The abundant life
you hear so much about is actually closer than you might think.
Every time a pastor goes to a new church, they form hopes, dreams,
and expectations - without necessarily realizing it - for the
progress and growth of their new ministry. Not only do these
pastors have to transition into a new congregation and community,
but they also have to think about building strong relationships
with other influential people in the area. Almost every day,
pastors of new churches face unexpected hardships and challenges.
Some of the issues are financial mismanagement from their
predecessor, moral or ethical misbehavior, or unresolved conflict
that has just been suppressed long enough to find a new pastor. The
fact is, pastors of new churches need guidance. The First 100 Days
is for these pastors who need some guidance and insight to help
them lead with godly wisdom and purpose during the first few
months.
Stories offer opportunities for listeners to merge the
storyteller's experiences with their own, resulting in connections
that can turn into life-changing experiences. However, when the
experience of the storyteller ceases to matter to the listener,
ideologies begin to influence the listener's view of the
storyteller. Using Narratives and Storytelling to Promote Cultural
Diversity on College Campuses is an essential research publication
that provides comprehensive research on the creation of space for
divergent narratives that detail a vast array of experiences. The
book includes qualitative studies on diversity-based projects and
video narratives that provide a comprehensive dialogue about
diversity with an emphasis on personal narratives. Highlighting a
range of topics including feminism, ethnicity, and psychosocial
development, this book is ideal for academicians, practitioners,
psychologists, sociologists, education professionals, counselors,
researchers, and students.
John Scott develops, describes, and uses new primary data about US
industrial firms' research and development (R&D) investments to
create innovative products and processes that provide goods and
services without the by-product of pollution. New knowledge about
environmental R&D is provided by original surveys of industry
from 1993 and 2001. The R&D and other firm data are juxtaposed
with US Census industry data and with US Environmental Protection
Agency data about industrial toxic releases. This book presents
hypothesis tests that provide evidence supporting the use of public
policies - described in the book - to stimulate industry to use its
creative powers to improve environmental performance. Economists
and policy makers in the areas of industrial organization,
technological change, the economics of R&D and the environment
including policy toward R&D and technology; as well as
corporate officers of R&D and environmental affairs will find
this volume indispensable.
This is the 2nd edition of The Sustainable Business (2010), winner
of The President's Award for Excellence in a Published Body of Work
at Kozminski University, Poland. Recommended for managers,
employees, teachers and students, this readable and informative
guide explains the importance of waste minimization as a first step
toward sustainability. Within its pages, the breadth and depth of
long-term profitable business practices are explored with an
emphasis on optimizing resources (including labour and markets) and
maximizing purchases and investments while eliminating the costs of
non-product (waste), unemployment, short-term thinking and
environmental degradation. As proof of its potency, The Sustainable
Business has already been disseminated to over 1.3 million people
around the world and the first edition is available in four
different languages. The bottom line: if you're looking to gain
insight on the future of business, this is it!
Your daily lift off to soar to greater heights. 365 readings to
accelerate your successful performance throughout the year.
Discover the practical tips to make you an effective,
customer-oriented manager! Focusing on the pervading belief that
everything a manager does must be customer oriented, The Concise
Handbook of Management: A Practitioner's Approach gives you an
overview of everything you need to know about managing in one
practical, concise book. This plain-talking guide not only explains
management theories, but also presents commonsense suggestions on
the best ways to effectively manage people and things, no matter
what type of business you are in. Taking a practitioner's approach
of discussing management issues with customers ultimately in mind,
this practical book motivates, is easily understandable, and is
entertaining to boot. The Concise Handbook of Management: A
Practitioner's Approach uses succinct chapters with several real
stories and case studies designed to clearly illustrate each
concept and suggestion. Written with the busy manager in mind, each
chapter is compact, clear, true-to-life, and is always aimed at the
bottom line. The book includes a small business marketing and
promotion checklist, a helpful bibliography, and a useful glossary
of terms. The Concise Handbook of Management: A Practitioner's
Approach explores: the first three steps in becoming a good manager
understanding the importance of customers getting the most from
employees management competencies and styles organizational
structures and cultures managing change managing conflict and
stress managing teams and workgroups ethics leadership managing
time written business communication mastering the skills of a
presentation dealing with people in the workplace a small business
marketing checklist project or program planning the marketing
basicsproductstrategymarketingpricing developing external and
internal customers The Concise Handbook of Management: A
Practitioner's Approach proves the adage that less is more, and has
already been called the undergraduate/graduate student's or
practicing manager's best all-in-one source and reference for
simplified management theory and skills.
"An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organization inspired
by Arnold Gehlen's philosophical anthropology, Michel Foucault's
history of medicine and Gille Deleuze's early philosophical works.
This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the problems faced
and their solutions"--
This open access book highlights concepts discussed at two
international conferences that brought together world-renowned
scientists to advance the science of potassium (K) recommendations
for crops. There was general agreement that the potassium
recommendations currently in general use are oversimplified,
outdated, and jeopardize soil, plant, and human health.
Accordingly, this book puts forward a significantly expanded K
cycle that more accurately depicts K inputs, losses and
transformations in soils. This new cycle serves as both the
conceptual basis for the scientific discussions in this book and a
framework upon which to build future improvements. Previously used
approaches are critically reviewed and assessed, not only for their
relevance to future enhancements, but also for their use as metrics
of sustainability. An initial effort is made to link K nutrition in
crops and K nutrition in humans. The book offers an invaluable
asset for graduate students, educators, industry scientists, data
scientists, and advanced agronomists.
Public Accountability: Evaluating Technology-Based Institutions
presents guidelines for evaluating the research performance of
technology-based public institutions, and illustrates these
guidelines through case studies conducted at one technology-based
public institution, the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST). The aim of this book is to demonstrate that a
clear, more precise response to the question of performance
accountability is possible through the systematic application of
evaluation methods to document value. The authors begin with a
review of the legislative history of fiscal accountability
beginning with the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, and ending
with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. A
discussion of existing applicable economic models, methods, and
associated metrics follows. The book concludes with evaluation case
studies.
This research collection illustrates the wide range of
methodologies and methods available for the evaluation of public
programs. All these methods address the benefits of the programs
and most compare the benefits to costs, but the types of benefits
and their measures vary greatly across the studies and across the
different types of public programs. The key articles presented here
explore these different approaches and offer many examples of
actual evaluations of public programs across different public
policy settings. Professor Link and Professor Scott have provided
an authoritative original introduction, which elucidates this
diversity of approaches and settings and challenges scholars to
contemplate an evaluation in terms of its theoretical foundation.
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most influential
works in the history of political thought and the adjective
Machiavellian is well-known and perhaps even over-used. So why does
the meaning of the text continue to be debated to the present day?
And how does a contemporary reader get to grips with a book full of
references to the politics of the early 16th Century? The Routledge
Guidebook to Machiavelli's The Prince provides readers with the
historical background, textual analysis, and other relevant
information needed for a greater understanding and appreciation of
this classic text. This guidebook introduces: the historical,
political and intellectual context in which Machiavelli was working
the key ideas developed by Machiavelli throughout the text and the
examples he uses to illustrate them the relationship of The Prince
to The Discourses and Machiavelli's other works Featuring a
timeline, maps and suggestions for further reading throughout, this
book is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to be able to
engage more fully with The Prince.
Antipsychotic medications are a key treatment for schizophrenia and
sales of antipsychotic drugs approach $20 billion per year, with
fierce marketing between the makers of the drugs. The U.S. National
Institute of Mental Health sponsored the Clinical Antipsychotic
Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) project to provide
independent information about the comparative effectiveness of
medications. CATIE was the largest, longest and most comprehensive
study of schizophrenia to date. Conducted under rigorous
double-blind conditions, Antipsychotic Trials in Schizophrenia
presents the definitive archival results of this landmark study.
The core of the book consists of chapters focused on specific
outcomes that set the CATIE findings in a wider context. Also
included are chapters on the design, statistical analyses and
implications for researchers, clinicians and policy makers.
Psychiatrists, psychiatric researchers, mental health policy makers
and those working in pharmaceutical companies will all find this to
be essential reading.
An unpleasant side effect of a robust economy is the struggle to
find, hire, and retain entry-level employees. Companies must
reevaluate and dramatically upgrade their entry-level recruiting
and hiring pracices, and develop retention strategies. McTague and
his consulting partner, Batrus Hollweg Inc., draw upon their long
experience with top drawer clients to give corporate decision and
policy makers and their staffs the tools they need to find and keep
the right people. Their book is an innovative, complete resource
for organizations of any size in all industries.
Among the topics that McTague discusses are the best practices
in staffing entry-level employees, such as the proper methodology
for creating and conducting interviews, how to research and
implement employment tests, and what the legal requirements are for
recruiting and hiring. McTague shows how the book's advice is good
for a wide spectrum of industries--financial, food service,
hospitality, manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, and
transportation. Of special importance is its guidance on legal
matters; how staffing impacts productivity, customer service, and
teamwork; and how a successful hiring policy will affects the
organization's bottom line, or on other ways it may be evaluated.
The book is an innovative, complete resource for organizations of
any size in all industries. In it you'll find the cutting-edge
methods and systems essential to getting good entry-level people
and keeping them.
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most influential
works in the history of political thought and the adjective
Machiavellian is well-known and perhaps even over-used. So why does
the meaning of the text continue to be debated to the present day?
And how does a contemporary reader get to grips with a book full of
references to the politics of the early 16th Century? The Routledge
Guidebook to Machiavelli's The Prince provides readers with the
historical background, textual analysis, and other relevant
information needed for a greater understanding and appreciation of
this classic text. This guidebook introduces: the historical,
political and intellectual context in which Machiavelli was working
the key ideas developed by Machiavelli throughout the text and the
examples he uses to illustrate them the relationship of The Prince
to The Discourses and Machiavelli's other works Featuring a
timeline, maps and suggestions for further reading throughout, this
book is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to be able to
engage more fully with The Prince.
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