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Do You Matter? How Great Design Will Make People Love Your Company - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: In 1997, shortly after Steve Jobs returnedto Apple, Dell’s founder and chairman, MichaelS. Dell, was asked at the Gartner Symposiumand ITxpo97 how he would fix fi nancially trou-bled Apple. “What would I do?” Dell said. “I’dshut it down and give the money back to theshareholders.”He had no idea he’d be eating those wordsjust ten years later when Apple’s market capital-ization surpassed not just Dell’s $64 billion ($47billion as we write this), but IBM’s as well. Inmid-2007, Apple was the most valuable computermaker in the world. Its market capitalizationstood at nearly $162 billion, $6 billion more thanthat of industry heavyweight IBM. At that sametime, Apple’s market cap was the fourth largestamong technology companies, lagging behindonly Cisco ($189 billion), Google ($208 billion),and Microsoft ($290 billion).The message: “Apple matters.”The question: “What’s to learn?”
True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series) - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: When Amy Burley gives Jason Stackhouse a quick tutorialon the “circle of life” (you know, squirrels eating nuts, snakeseating squirrels, and so on), using the decor of Merlotte’s as avisual aid, he exclaims, “Jesus Christ, I want to lick your mind!”Our boy Jason may be better known in Bon Temps for hisgood looks and “sex abilities,” but it’s phrases like “lick yourmind” that draw fans to True Blood ’s most earnest, if sometimestragically misguided, seeker of life’s meaning and purpose (orat least his life’s meaning and purpose). In fact, “lick your mind”perfectly captures the blend of smarts and sensuality in the bril-liant, sexually charged HBO series that inspired us to producethe book you hold in your hands, True Blood and Philosophy
Teaching, the Hardest Job You'll Ever Love: Helpful Ideas for Teachers In and Out of the Classroom - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Teaching Is The Hardest Job You Will Ever Love! is a realistic guide that can help the high school teacher and community. It includes ways to maintain one's health, how to balance one's personal and school life, and how to interact in a better, successful manner. In order to become successful, it is important for high school teachers to include personal fulfillment so that students will ultimately learn not only the subject matter but also how to be self-sufficient, be self-accountable, and learn with others. While students need to learn how to accept their learning and their grades, parents or guardians also need to be able to be a support system for their young adults with encouragement when needed and with praise when earned.
Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy and Fit on a Plant-Based Diet - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Are you considering going vegan, but you're not sure how to start? Are you already committed to an animal-free diet, but are unclear about how to get proper nutrients? Vegan for Life is your comprehensive, go-to guide for optimal plant-based nutrition. Registered dietitians and long-time vegans Jack Norris and Virginia Messina debunk some of the most persistent myths about vegan nutrition and provide essential information about getting enough calcium and protein, finding the best supplements, and understanding the "real deal" about soy.Covering everything from a six-step transition plan to meeting calorie and nutrient needs during pregnancy and breastfeeding, Vegan for Life is the guide for aspiring and veteran vegans alike, complete with an easy-to-use food chart, tasty substitutions, sample menus, and expansive resources.
CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Video Projects: 24 Cool Things You Didnt Know You Could Do! - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Now you can get the most out of your home video equipment and video phone with the fun and practical projects packed inside this easy-to-follow guide. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the latest in tech and consumer electronics, this book shows you how to create all kinds of videos and special effects.Youll also find out how to enhance, edit, store, and share your movies.Inside, youll find 24 self-contained projects, step-by-step instructions, a list of tools needed at the beginning of each project, and hundreds of clear photos and screenshots. With CNET Do-It-Yourself Home Video Projects, youll be able to create your own professional-quality videos.
If You Teach It, They Will Read: Literature's Life Lessons for Today's Students - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: What does it mean to 'teach' a poem, novel or play? Surely it is about lessons in comprehension and improvements in language facility, but what does literature teach us beyond literacy? Students can read substantive literature for what its authors intended: an insight into the human condition. Students, even those who appear indifferent, struggle with questions of right and wrong, good and evil, love and loss, self-interest and self-sacrifice. Using literature he has used with his students, MacLean insists that asking the right questions, discussing ideas that still matter, will show students that others have wrestled with the same issues, expressing that struggle in timeless stories. For the teacher of literature, the student of literature, the lover of literature, this book is a reminder of why, in the words of Maya Angelou, 'we stumble and fall, and how, miraculously, we can stand up.' What more important lesson is there?
The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: ForeWord Book of the Year Award winner "The Five-Year Party provides the most vivid portrait of college life since Tom Wolfe's 2004 novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. The difference is that it isn't fiction. The alcohol-soaked, sex-saturated, drug-infested campuses that Mr. Brandon writes about are real. His book is a roadmap for parents on how to steer clear of the worst of them . The Five-Year Party is a useful handbook for parents to pack when they take their teenager on a college tour, and its list of suggested questions is smart. My favorite: How many of the school's professors send their own children there?” The Wall Street Journal High costs and debt, insufficient instruction, dangerous campuses, and poor job prospects: for too many students, a five-year college party often turns into a lifelong nightmare. The Five-Year Party is packed with illuminating stories and details about this crisis situation, and helps readers to avoid the dangers and get the most for their money.” Marc Scheer, author, No Sucker Left Behind: Avoiding the Great College Rip-Off "In one dismaying and maddening episode and circumstance after another, Craig Brandon's survey of college campuses sounds a vital warning for parents: 'The institutions and administrators you trust to foster and guide your children's formation are more interested in their pocketbooks than their intellects. Buyer beware!'" Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future After reading only a few pages of The Five-Year Party, I immediately started telling people about its important message. This crucial book exposes the consumer mentality now all too prevalent on college campuses, detailing how higher education has given students what they want at the expense of giving them what they need to compete in the global marketplace. Even better, the book tells parents and educators how this nefarious trend can be circumvented. Any parent who wants their college-bound teen to actually learn something for their heaps of tuition money should read this book.” Jean M. Twenge, author of Generation Me and co-author of The Narcissism Epidemic "With broad, unforgiving strokes, Craig Brandon paints a dark picture of residential college life that will give every parent pause before sending a child off to any of his 'Party Schools.'" Barrett Seaman, author of Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess Colleges look much the same as they did five or ten years ago, but a lot has changed behind the scenes. While some mixture of study and play has always been part of college life, an increasing number of schools have completely abandoned the idea that students need to learn or demonstrate that they've learned. Financial pressures have made college administrations increasingly reluctant to flunk anyone out, regardless of performance, although the average length of time to get a degree is now five years, and for many students it's six or more. Student evaluations of professorsoften linked to promotion and tenure decisionshave made professors realize that applying tough standards, or any standards, only hurts their own career progress. For many professors, it's become easier and more rewarding to focus on giving entertaining lectures and to give everyone reasonably good grades. The worst of these schools are the "subprime" colleges, where performance standards and accountability have been completely abandoned. Students enjoy a five year party with minimal responsibilities while their parents pay the bills. These schools' investment decisions (first-class gyms and dining centers) are all geared to attracting students that want to have a good time, and their brochures all emphasize the fun aspects of the college experiencethere are very few pictures of students actually studying or in class. And after graduation, former students are frequently unable to find work in their chosen fields, thanks to their school’s reputation with employers, and unable to afford the payments on sizable student loans. The subprime colleges, which "teach" a significant percentage of college students, are only the tip of the iceberg. All colleges, even the most elite, have moved in this direction to some extent. If you are a parent sending your child to college, "The Five-Year Party" will give you critical information you need about what is really happening at your child's college, and what you can do to ensure help your child gets a real education.
So You Want to Use Role Play?: A New Approach in How to Plan - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book has two kinds of readers in mind. Those of you whowould like to try using role-play with your group, but don’tknow where or how to start. Those of you who, having triedit, now want to extend its scope and are ready to rethink itsprinciples. Whether you are working in the caring professions,commerce, industry or education we hope these pages will offer younew ideas and a new way of looking at what it means to learnsomething through role work.The book is full of examples of practice, but because we do not havea particular kind of group or learning context in mind, you shouldtake our examples as representing a kind of role-play. We are notsaying ‘You should do this particular exercise’, but rather, ‘This kindof role-play may be suitable for what you are doing’, leaving you tochoose the subject-matter. So our chosen themes or topics arearbitrary. For instance, the first chapter offers a wide range ofexamples on Road Safety with young children. We are not settingout to appeal to teachers who happen to want to cover the subject ofRoad Safety with young children; we are using it to illustrateunderlying principles of role-play that we hope are transferable toany topic you and your group are exploring.Similarly we see our range of exercises relating to the theme of‘disloyalty’ with adolescents, the training of apprentice gas-fitters inhow to approach customers, the testing of managers in team respon-sibility and the medical students’ initiation into visualising the dailyresponsibilities of the doctor they may one day become, as illus-trative of principles applicable to a myriad of contexts.But this book attempts to do more than outline the rules of role-play.Its authors have a mission! We are attempting to break what we seeas the ‘moulds’ of role-play practice. Publications on the subjectviiseem to follow one (or both) of two traditions. There is the‘simulation’ tradition in which a ‘real-life’ work problem isreplicated and the participants engage in solving it. Derived fromthis are a number of exercises set up to isolate for subsequentexamination a particular deficiency in interpersonal communica-tion. The learning outcome is to do with procedures and theeffectiveness of individuals to follow them. The second tradition hasa ‘counselling’ basis. In these the emphasis is on sensitivity ingroups and the honest facing up to one’s behaviour in stressful worksituations. You will find that most recommended role-play practicederives from one or other of these traditions. Much of it is based onsound principles and planning. And yet anecdotal recollections ofpast role-play experiences often dismiss the work as a waste of timeand/or a dreaded embarrassment
The Fast Food Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Great Even If You're Too Busy to Eat Right - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: America is a fast-food nation, for better and for worse.Consider the typical weekday. The alarm goes offand the family’s bare feet start hitting the floor immediately.Everyone’s probably running a little late because they didn’tget enough sleep. (Americans sleep an average of seven hoursa night, down from nine hours a century ago.) Getting the kidsready for school requires a Herculean effort: brushing teeth,washing faces, and digging under the couch for overduelibrary books. Time for a quick bowl of cereal? Probably not.So you rush out the door with an empty stomach. Maybeyou’ll snatch something on the way—or just do without any-thing to eat until lunch.This frenetic pace doesn’t let up at work. There’s hardlysuch a thing as a lunch “hour” anymore. More likely you’llgrab food at a take-out joint near the office and wolf it downon the way to the bank or some other errand. Then it’s back to1I N T R O D U C T I O NGet Smarter, Get Slimmeron Fast Foodwork until quitting time maybe five, six, or seven hours later.At that point your blood sugar is crashing and the last thing onyour mind is cooking something from scratch. Ravenous andstressed-out from your day, you point the car to KFC orWendy’s or Burger King. You want something fast becauseyou’re practically starving and there’s still the kids’ homeworkto oversee, chores to do, and perhaps a game or your favoriteTV show to catch before crashing into bed.Fast food is so affordable and plentiful that millions ofNorth Americans eat it every single day—or many times aweek. We now eat on average five meals a week outside thehome, in addition to snacking on convenience foods. The aver-age adult consumes three hamburgers and four orders of friesevery week. On any given day, 25 percent of all people inNorth America eat a fast-food meal. It’s just so easy to hop inthe car, zip the whole family through the drive-thru, and havedinner over and done in ten or fifteen minutes. No cooking, nocleanup, no stress—with time left over for errands and maybesome TV, plus change from a twenty-dollar bill
Wed Him Before You Bed Him (School for Heiresses) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: So what on earth had brought him here? She could not imagine a more awkward situation. Inall these years, she and David had never been alone together, never spoken of what she haddone to him.“Should I send him packing?” Terence asked.For a second, she was tempted. But something important indeed must have brought him tovisit the woman who had once wronged him so horribly. “No. Just show him in.”After Terence left, she checked her appearance in the mirror to make sure her auburn curlswere not too badly askew and her face not too pale. Perhaps it was foolish, but she wantedto look her best before him, of all people. She scarcely had time to smooth her skirts andpinch her cheeks before he was ushered into her office, bringing her face-to-face with theman she had nearly married so long ago.Pasting a smile on her lips, she walked forward with her hand extended. “Lord Kirkwood.How nice to see you again.”His eyes flashed with some hidden emotion. “Charlotte.” He took her hand and pressed itbriefly before releasing it.Charlotte. Not Mrs. Harris, but Charlotte, spoken in the husky tone that had made her heartflip over when she was eighteen and he nearly twenty.No, she must not think of that. Those days were gone forever, lost in the pages of theirpasts. Time and her own mistakes, as well as his, had changed them both irrevocablyآیا کتاب مورد نظر هنوز بر روی سایت قرار نگرفته است؟ جای نگرانی نیست! کافی است بر روی گزینه سفارش کتاب کلیک کرده و درخواست خود را ثبت کنید. در کمتر از چند ساعت کتاب شما را آماده خواهیم کرد.