This story-driven book shows how the best change leaders use not just reports or analysis, but gloves, video cameras, airplanes, office design, and other concrete elements to impel people toward positive action

A soup-to-nuts guide for entrepreneurs, covering all areas of business creation, development, and management. The book includes a wealth of insightful tools and information, and success stories and interviews from entrepreneurs who have experienced the joys and frustrations of business ownership firsthand

This book provides both a comprehensive introduction to Business English for teachers who are new to the field, as well as inspiration and guidance for those already involved in this area of teaching

This book is an introduction to the phonetics and phonology of English. It incorporates all central aspects of research in the phonology of English and involves the reader at every step, with over 80 exercises leading students to discover facts, to formulate general statements, and to apply concepts

The book is teeming with entertaining stories, unforgettable management lessons, and an evaluation test to see if your business has what it takes to become one of the top performing companies in the country

The book is the perfect resource for new trainers, managers who are suddenly asked to train, and training professionals in need of a quick refresher. Comprehensive and arranged in an easy-reference format, this book supplies instant guidance specifically designed to make any training task easier and more efficient. The book gives you concise, easy-to-digest nuggets of information you can put to use even at a moment’s notice. You’ll find here’s-how-to-do-it information on need-to-know training topics including: • the principles of learning • budgeting for training

Volume 1 includes the colonial and independence eras up to 1850, linking Latin America's economic history to the pre-Hispanic, European, and African background. It also synthesizes knowledge on the human and environmental impact of the Spanish conquest, the evolution of colonial economic institutions, and the performance of key sectors of the colonial and immediate post-colonial economies. Finally, it provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of independence

Volume 2 treats the "long twentieth century" from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. After analyzing the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth up to 1930, it explores the era of inward-looking development from the 1930s to the collapse of import-substituting industrialization and the return to strategies of globalization in the 1980s. Finally, it looks at the long term trends in capital flows, agriculture and the environment

The over 1500 definitions and words that are used in this dictionary were specifically prepared editorially for an age level of 5-9 years. The entire book is profusely illustrated with complete full-colour illustrations to enable a child to grasp even more fully the meaning of the words and definitions. A child's first step into the world of dictionaries becomes a happy one and one that will make the move up to the next grade of dictionary natural and comfortable

This is a delightful fable in the great tradition. The long-tailed field mouse who is the hero of the story, was involved - and this is true - in a programme of field research and while scientists observe him he observes man and the rest of nature. This enchanting book reads like a fairy tale, but the author has indeed built a bridge from fairyland to science, and there is profound meaning in this story which will be a delight to people of all ages who care about man and nature