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If you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset. From managing and motivating people and teams to performance management and appraisals, THE ULTIMATE MANAGEMENT BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Discover the main themes, key ideas and tools you need and bring it all together with practical exercises.This is your complete course in modern management. ABOUT THE SERIESULTIMATE books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance, each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English, each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject, with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you're doing.

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Operación pico cerrado es un álbum ilustrado de humor, autenticidad y amistad. Clotilde no puede estar callada, por eso sus amigos han inventado una norma para poder dormir. Esta gallina lo pone muy difícil, porque si cierra el pico, un huevo se le escapa, Qué tendrán dentro? Una historia muy divertida en la que nos veremos reflejados en muchos aspectos.

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Sin necesidad de conocimientos previos. Ya estudies en la Universidad u oposites, la presente obra te va a permitir dominar el Estatuto de Andalucía, es decir, la norma institucional básica de dicha Comunidad Autónoma de forma fácil y amena. En este libro, que es un híbrido, el autor te lleva de la mano para que puedas sacar el máximo rendimiento en un formato muy práctico y cómodo. Cómo? Muy fácil. Vicente Valera te propone clasificar las preguntas (que están organizadas en modo ficha) en función de su dificultad y, a partir de ahí, comenzar un camino que te llevará hasta hasta su conocimiento. En relación con su utilidad para el acceso a la función pública es sabido que en el ámbito de la Comunidad Autónoma Andaluza se precisa el conocimiento de dicha norma para todos los procesos selectivos desarrollados en la misma: Junta de Andalucía, Diputaciones, Ayuntamientos, Administración Sanitaria o Universidades Públicas. IG / FACEBOOK: @1040Preguntas

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Primero de los tres tomos en los que se plantea, partiendo de la estructura de la norma, distintos supuestos prácticos que analizan las determinaciones contenidas en la Ley 9/2017, de 8 de noviembre, de Contratos del Sector Público, por la que se transponen al ordenamiento jurídico español las Directivas del Parlamento europeo y del Consejo 2014/23/UE y 2014/24/UE, de 26 de febrero de 2014.En concreto se abordan aquí las relativas al TÍTULO PRELIMINAR (Disposiciones generales) y el LIBRO PRIMERO (Configuración general de la contratación del sector público y elementos estructurales de los contratos).La estructura de la obra respeta la establecida en la citada Ley. Dentro de cada título, capítulo y sección se efectúa el planteamiento de un supuesto práctico, al que le suceden una serie de cuestiones formuladas de tres formas: tipo test, a desarrollar o elaboración de documentos, con el objeto de forzar el proceso lógico o comprensión de la norma. Por último, se ofrecen las contesta

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Por fin una obra completa y de carácter práctico sobre la problemática laboral de las contratas y subcontratas, donde se tratan de manera pormenorizada todas las controversias generadas por el artículo 42 del Estatuto de los Trabajadores desde su aparición en la norma estatutaria en 1980.En esta obra se analiza desde la dificultad que existe para determinar la noción de propia actividad, tan cambiante y tan casuística, como el también difícil deslinde entre esta figura y la de la cesión ilegal regulada en el artículo 43 de la norma estatutaria, pasando por el estudio de las diferentes responsabilidades que la legislación prevé para el empresario principal por incumplimientos del contratista, tanto salariales como de seguridad social y de prevención de riesgos laborales, sin olvidarse de la especialidad del sector de construcción como protagonista principal en el uso de esta figura de la subcontratación, con su peculiar regulación específica, y analizando también la problemática de l

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En esta obra, Vicente Valera, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una preciosa versión, fácil estudio, sobre la Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo, de Educación, que incluye las modificaciones derivadas de la Ley Orgánica 3/2020, de 29 de diciembre.En un cómodo e innovador formato, pensado especialmente para el uso diario por parte de toda aquella persona que deba enfrentarse a la misma a través de los distintos procesos selectivos que se desarrollan por todo nuestro país.A todo color, con anillas ocultas, el papel idóneo para un uso intensivo y prácticas solapas interiores para que puedas guardar alguna nota, etc... por supuesto, esta versión tan bella pretende, igualmente, servir de humilde homenaje a una norma tan fundamental del Estado español, norma que parte de la convicción de que una buena educación es la mayor riqueza y el principal recurso de un país y de sus ciudadanos y ciudadanas.

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La única norma del bosque de Gagabe es que todo debe permanecer siempre igual, los días deben sucederse idénticos, ante el temor de que un mínimo cambio conlleve una desgracia. Para velar por el cumplimiento de esta norma, se ha creado una unidad de reconocimiento denominada Equipo Seis, que tiene la misión de garantizar que, en caso de producirse la menor alteración, esta se corrija de inmediato.Un acontecimiento imprevisto, la aparición de una extraña piedra humeante, que resultará ser una estrella del firmamento, origina un nuevo ciclo de vida en el bosque. En su empeño por devolver la estrella a su lugar de origen, el Equipo Seis se verá arrastrado a comprender que, si la estrella está ahí, hay una razón que la ha hecho dirigirse hacia ellos: quizás había demasiado deseos ocultos entre los habitantes de Gagabe, quienes, por miedo al cambio, no podían permitirse dirigirse a una estrella que hiciera sus sueños realidad.Una historia de valentía, cambio, adaptación, observación

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From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel series that started it all! “DeadEndia is immediately appealing with its colorful art, unique setting, and funny jokes, but I especially loved the complicated emotional arcs of the characters and the weird, spooky magic underlying everything!” —Molly Knox Ostertag, creator of The Witch Boy “Heart-warming, heartbreaking, heart-pounding, and heartfelt!" —Marika McCoola, The New York Times bestselling author of Baba Yaga’s Assistant Norma Khan has been split in two . . . literally! Dead End, the haunted hotel attraction at Phoenix Parks, has been rebuilt following the epic destruction that occurred there when Norma and her friends Barney and Pugsley saved the world. Unfortunately, Norma can’t keep herself together as a result. Not only is her friendship with Barney on the rocks, but she can’t seem to keep her own ghost inside her body. When Norma feels like she’s about to lose it all, her irksome friend and demon, Courtney, steps in to provide some unexpected support—though they are battling their own issues with identity and sense of belonging. Meanwhile, Barney can’t face going back to Phoenix Parks and is mourning the loss of his beloved friend Pugsley. When his boyfriend, Logan, urges him to get a job, an opportunity from the demon planes comes knocking, and soon Barney is climbing the ladder of success in the Demon Wrestling Federation. Barney’s glory in the ring quickly comes crashing down when the friends discover they’ve stepped into an eons old battle between the demons and the angels. Can they keep their relationships and sense of self intact while doing battle with the forces of good AND evil?Part workplace comedy, part supernatural horror adventure, with a splash of LGBTQ+ romance, The Broken Halo is perfect for fans of author Hamish Steele’s TV series Dead End: Paranormal Park who are in search of more adventures, for graphic novel lovers who want more diversity in their reads, or for anyone who has finished The Watcher’s Test and is ready for the next entry in the zany, creative, and laugh-out-loud funny world of DeadEndia.

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Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers—a previously unseen trove—and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America. Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma’s life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women, including the youngest—Baby Roe—now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations—not only about Norma and her children but about the broader “family” connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life.

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Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers—a previously unseen trove—and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America. Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma’s life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women, including the youngest—Baby Roe—now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations—not only about Norma and her children but about the broader “family” connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life.

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From the creator of Netflix original series Dead End: Paranormal Park comes the graphic novel series that started it all! “DeadEndia is immediately appealing with its colorful art, unique setting, and funny jokes, but I especially loved the complicated emotional arcs of the characters and the weird, spooky magic underlying everything!” —Molly Knox Ostertag, creator of The Witch Boy “Heart-warming, heartbreaking, heart-pounding, and heartfelt!" —Marika McCoola, The New York Times bestselling author of Baba Yaga’s Assistant Norma Khan has been split in two . . . literally! Dead End, the haunted hotel attraction at Phoenix Parks, has been rebuilt following the epic destruction that occurred there when Norma and her friends Barney and Pugsley saved the world. Unfortunately, Norma can’t keep herself together as a result. Not only is her friendship with Barney on the rocks, but she can’t seem to keep her own ghost inside her body. When Norma feels like she’s about to lose it all, her irksome friend and demon, Courtney, steps in to provide some unexpected support—though they are battling their own issues with identity and sense of belonging. Meanwhile, Barney can’t face going back to Phoenix Parks and is mourning the loss of his beloved friend Pugsley. When his boyfriend, Logan, urges him to get a job, an opportunity from the demon planes comes knocking, and soon Barney is climbing the ladder of success in the Demon Wrestling Federation. Barney’s glory in the ring quickly comes crashing down when the friends discover they’ve stepped into an eons old battle between the demons and the angels. Can they keep their relationships and sense of self intact while doing battle with the forces of good AND evil?Part workplace comedy, part supernatural horror adventure, with a splash of LGBTQ+ romance, The Broken Halo is perfect for fans of author Hamish Steele’s TV series Dead End: Paranormal Park who are in search of more adventures, for graphic novel lovers who want more diversity in their reads, or for anyone who has finished The Watcher’s Test and is ready for the next entry in the zany, creative, and laugh-out-loud funny world of DeadEndia.

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Judith Butler explora la manera en que el liderazgo bélico de EE. UU. ha impuesto una distinción entre aquellas vidas que merecen ser lloradas y aquellas que no. Nos muestra que esta distinción, presentada a través de formas de comunicación que se han convertido en parte de la guerra misma, ha conducido al primer mundo a la destrucción y abandono de poblaciones que no se ajustan a la norma occidental imperante de lo humano.

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This work narrates the journey of a famous science fiction novelist, Martin Gibson, to one of the most prosperous extraterrestrial colonies, where the most famous scientists are managing to change the appearance of Mars to make it habitable. However, what was supposed to be a pleasure trip soon turns into a complicated web of political and scientific interests that traps Martin and confronts him with an unpleasant evidence: relations between Earth and Mars are not as placid as they seem.

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Medicinal Chemistry teaches essential concepts by focusing on how the field is actually practiced, melding real-world research experience with basic principles and modern methods. Written by practicing medicinal chemists, this textbook is intended for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. Pre-medical or pre-pharmacy students and professionals entering the drug discovery field will also find it a useful reference. Building on a foundation of synthetic organic chemistry and structural biology, the book interweaves therapeutics, case studies, historical context, and techniques for discovering, developing, and optimizing new drugs. Chapters are richly illustrated and include problems and annotated journal references with accompanying exercises and answers. Authored by practicing medicinal chemists—melding real-world research experience with basic concepts and up-to-date methods Flexible in presentation— the first five chapters provide a conceptual foundation and historical understanding of the field; subsequent chapters explore the application of concepts. Chapters can be assigned in order of instructor preference and desired emphasis Presents easy-to-follow tables and descriptions of assays next to their relevance to medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, along with target values—information rarely found all in one place, but is a crucial reference Case studies and Journal Club use current literature to apply concepts from the text to real-life examples. They are also suitable for flipped classrooms and self-study

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This volume demonstrates how principals influence success in 14 elementary schools across Mexico. The cases show the importance of learning in an international school leadership context to address cultural, social, and academic needs of students in their families. Characteristics of successful principals are included, in order to exemplify contemporary practices, generate positive school climate, and the best possible development of children in diverse contexts.The cases presented in this book relate to challenging and vulnerable contexts or high-needs schools. Knowledge about successful school leadership in vulnerable contexts has been highly pursued in the U.S. and abroad, especially in countries where educational disparities relate to equity and social justice. The value of school principals merit visibility with a focus on the Americas.Especially in challenging contexts, school leadership is considered a determining factor in promoting the development of children. Nonetheless, there is much to learn about contemporary school leaders, who succeed in improving schools despite societal challenges. Challenges may include increasing socioeconomic restraints, high accountability demands, and reduced resources for public education. Of note, is that a formal preparation and assignment of principals is not equitably established in Mexico, generating a high need for leaders to be prepared for this important role. By highlighting best leadership practices, practitioners and scholars can reflect about United States and Mexico educational comparisons, and observe school improvement geared towards benefitting Latinx communities in both countries.

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This book introduces the study of ethnic women and contributes to our understanding of the relationships among gender, race/ethnicity, and social class. The social scientific study of gender has grown exponentially for more than two decades. Until recently, however, little attention has been paid to the diversity among women. The social scientific literature on ethnicity has experienced a revival in the same decades, yet women have frequently been overlooked or misrepresented in that literature. When ethnic women do appear they are typically depicted as selfless wives and mothers or passive victims. Theses twenty original essays challenge myths and stereotypes. The authors—social scientists, social service professionals, and other scholars—explore a broad range of racial/ethnic and social class circumstances. Communities represented include the Hmong in Wisconsin, Cuban Jews in Florida, and Samoans in Hawaii. Patters of immigration and social mobility, communal institutions, and maintenance of ethnic traditions are among the topics which reflect the multiple status reality of ethnic women.

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Un diccionario para escoger la palabra o expresión más adecuada para cada contexto y mejorar la manera de hablar y escribir. Presentado en un formato que facilita la consulta, contiene más de 13 600 entradas y recoge 55 000 sinónimos y antónimos y 3 200 citas y comentarios. Una herramienta fundamental para expresarse mejor, este diccionario ofrece un repertorio esencial del vocabulario de la lengua española utilizada tanto en América como en España y está adaptado a la norma ortográfica de la RAE.

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El presente manual tiene por objeto afianzar, a través de numerosas preguntas tipo test, los contenidos de la norma fundamental del Estado español: la Constitución Española de 1978.Consta de 634 preguntas tipo test, incluyendo un simulacro de examen compuesto por preguntas que han sido formuladas en exámenes reales de diversas pruebas selectivas oficiales.Contiene, además, el texto completo de la Constitución Española de 1978.

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A sensitive picture book to help ease the anxieties of foster children aged 4 to 10 entering placement.In A Different Home, Jessie tells us her story of being placed in foster care. At first she is worried and has lots of questions. The new home is not like her old home -- she has a different bedroom, different clothes, and there's different food for breakfast. She also misses her family. When Jim and Debbie, her foster parents, answer her questions she begins to feel better and see that this different home is kind of nice. Written in simple language and fully illustrated in color, this storybook is designed to help children in care, or moving into care, to settle in and answer some of the questions they may have. Accompanied by notes for adults on how to use the story with children, it will be a useful book for foster parents and caseworkers, as well as social workers, teachers and anyone else working with children in foster care.

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Das praxisnahe Sprach-Lehrbuch wurde von erfahrenen Sprachlehrerinnen und einem Praktiker konzipiert. Vermittelt werden Englischkenntnisse speziell für das Pflegestudium: u. a. zu den verschiedenen Arbeitsbereichen der Pflege, Standardpflegesituationen und Kommunikation sowie Gesundheitssystem und Qualifizierung in Großbritannien und den USA. Mit Übungen, Dialogen und Lückentexten können Grammatik, Aussprache und Vokabeln trainiert werden. Vokabellisten und anatomische Zeichnungen unterstützen das Lernen. Außerdem: Hörbeispiele zum Herunterladen.

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Puedes construir tu identidad sobre 127 kilos de mentiras? Hacer creer que te amas tal como eres, aunque estés "fuera de la norma", para gritar alto y claro que eres feliz, que todo está bien en el mejor de los mundos y que no tienes fisuras?Es muy práctico tener una doble. Es más: puede que un día incluso decidas volverte en su contra y cargarlo todo a sus espaldas. Pero cómo matarla sin perder la vida?

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A traves dela lectura de este libro Sistemas de Gestión de Calidad (9001:2015) conocerá los últimos cambios sobre las modalidades Gestión de Calidad. Aprender a valorar el concepto del Sistema de Gestión de Calidad, comprender en qué se basan y en qué consisten las modificaciones que se proponen con los cambios en la norma. Este curso analiza los principales cambios que ha introducido la ISO 9001:2015 ayudando a los participantes a comprender el nuevo enfoque y dotándoles de las herramientas y 10

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En esta obra, Vicente, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una versión fácil estudio sobre la Ley Orgánica 10/1995, de 23 de noviembre, del Código Penal, al objeto de favorecer el empleo de la memoria visual, algo tradicionalmente poco empleado en el mundo jurídico. Como bien es sabido, esta norma tiene un papel muy destacado en la multitud de programas oficiales de diversas Oposiciones de ámbito estatal, autonómico y local y, en consecuencia, sin su dominio absoluto se hace prácticamente imposible superar los mismos.

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En Pinxo i la Betty visiten l?Òpera de París i es perden en aquest indret magnífic. Una ocasió perfecta per passejar entre bambalines i descobrir precioses melodies!Prem les icones, escolta i descobreix amb en Pinxo les següents òperes:Verdi: La força del destíBizet: CarmenHaendel: RinaldoMozart: La flauta màgicaBellini: NormaVerdi: RigolettoDelibes: LakméMozart: Les noces de FígaroVerdi: La traviataRossini: El barber de SevillaUn llibre musical interactiu ple de detalls.Recomanat a partir de 3 anys.

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The term "market" originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis. This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space. The essays present new research from the fields of geography, economics, political economy and planning and provide valuable case study material to show how markets are contested, constructed and placed. Rather than separate markets from the surrounding society and state, these essays connect markets to their wider context and showcase how economic geography can combine with other disciplines to throw new light on spaces of exchange.

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Eisner Awardwinning creator Hamish Steele's DeadEndia series is Steven Universe meets Adventure Time for fans of Scott Pilgrim, Rick and Morty, Adventure Time, and Pumpkinheads. In this diverse young adult graphic novel, third in the DeadEndia trilogy, Barney, Norma, and friends team up with unlikely heroes to fight a battle for the fate of the universe, all while dealing with their greatest challenge of all: their love lives. The battle between angels and demons rages on, and Courtney finds themselves restored to former glory in the realm of the angels with a new mission: bring about a new Divine Order and create a fourteenth plane of existence to keep the demons at bay. On the seventh plane, known to us as Earth, Norma Khan and Barney Guttman have allied with the demons in a search for both freedom and peace. There's just one thing standing in their way: the Guttman family reunion. Badyah has joined the resistance as well, honing her martial arts skills and getting ready to pro

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Microskills es el programa original del entrenamiento de las habilidades de entrevista y es el más investigado. Los fundamentos del escuchar se han enseñado a cientos de miles de personas a través del mundo y en 17 idiomas, o más.Esta edición en español te permitirá: Utilizar por el segundo capítulo la habilidad más fundamental del escuchar, el comportamiento atencional. Aprender y dominar las habilidades de escuchar básicas, tales como preguntar, motivar, parafrasear, reflejar sentimientos y resumir, utilizando un proceso de aprendizaje paso-a-paso. Entender cómo adaptar las habilidades de entrevistar a las diferencias individuales y multiculturales. Completar una entrevista bien estructurada usando solamente las habilidades de escuchar. Enseñar a tus propios clientes y a otras personas las importantes habilidades de escuchar, y utilizar estas habilidades con grupos y familias.

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Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations. Frequently challenging, they require special training and skills. This interaction process is further complicated when the suspect or witness does not speak the same language as the interviewer. A professional reference that can be used in police training or in any venue where an interpreter is used, Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting: Context, Challenges, and Strategies provides solutions for the range of interview demands found in today’s multilingual environments. Topics include: What interpreting is, the skills required, and the role of interpreters in any job context Investigative interviewing in law enforcement Concerns about interpreter intervention and its impact on interview outcomes The value of word-based over meaning-based interpretation in police and legal contexts Nonlinguistic factors that can have an impact on the interpreting process The book explores the multi-faceted dynamics of conducting investigative interviews via interpreters and examines current investigative interviewing paradigms. It offers strategies to help interpreters and law enforcement officers and provides examples of interpreted interview excerpts to enable understanding. Although the subject matter and the examples in this book are largely limited to police interview settings, the underlying rationale applies to other professional areas that rely on interviews to collect information, including customs procedures, employer-employee interviews, and insurance claim investigations.This book is part of the CRC Press Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series.

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The approach known as Diversity Management, is about managing the increasing diversity of issues that confront us. It is a response to the ever growing number of approaches ? more models, more methodologies and more theories ? developed to tackle those issues. Diversity Management addresses this new issue to be confronted ? how to choose between the models, methodologies and theories. The book, Diversity Management: Triple Loop Learning, will provide a strong intellectual contribution to the now widely debated issue of managing diversity. It carefully blends theory and practice in order to provide substance to the debate on diversity management in the social and systems sciences. The focus on triple loop learning increases the fullness of learning about the diversity of issues and dilemmas faced. It brings together three main learning centres in one overall awareness so that the process is more reflexive and those involved can operate more intelligently and responsibly. Diversity Management: Triple Loop Learning is thoroughly illustrated with case studies and shows theoreticians and interventionists how they can operate with a consciousness that is more than the sum of its parts.

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European Voices brings together a wide swath of major European poets from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Celan, Mallarme, Verlaine, Pushkin, Saba, and Cavafy. Translators include David Constantine, Robin Fulton, Michael Hamburger, and Marilyn Hacker. Also Available: Modern Poetry in Translation: Mother Tongues TP $16.95, 0-939010-65-8 o CUSA

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In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.

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ASQ - Quest ForumEstablece un conjunto común de requisitos del sistema de gestión de la calidad para el desarrollo, producción, suministro, instalación y mantenimiento de los productos de telecomunicaciones: hardware, software y servicios.Los requisitos descritos en esta obra están basados en la norma ISO 9001:2000, así como en los documentos normativos actualmente existentes en la industria de la telecomunicación.Desarrolla los siguientes apartados:- Estructura- Administración de TL 9000- Sistema de gestión de la calidad- Responsabilidad de la dirección- Gestión de los recursos- Realización del producto- Medición, análisis y mejora

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Basic Influencing Skills and Strategies equips readers with counseling skills designed to produce positive change with clients. The text features an emphasis on communication, preparing future practitioners to become effective communicators and listeners, and then take appropriate action based upon what they learn during practitioner-patient interviews. In Section 1, students are introduced to the microskills framework and its multicultural orientation, and the importance of listening to draw out client stories, issues, and concerns is emphasized. This part also presents two strategies to facilitate practitioners learning and analysis of client interviews: the community genogram and the client change scale. Section 2 presents the specifics of particular influencing skills, including focusing, supportive confrontation, feedback and self-disclosure, and interpretation/reframing. In Section 3, students gain an understanding of how to integrate and apply learned skillsets. They are introduced to the 5-Stage Interview, a framework that effectively applies the concepts addressed throughout the book to multiple counseling theories. The fourth edition includes clear behavioral skill descriptions to enable the interviewer to anticipate client responses as well as outcomes; concrete attention to multicultural practice and social justice; and introduction of the community genogram.Featuring foundational skillsets that are critical to the counseling practice, Basic Influencing Skills and Strategies is an ideal text for introductory courses in counseling.

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En su primer libro Jara Pérez nos acompaña en un apasionante viaje en el que nos enfrentaremos a nuestras fortalezas y debilidades y aprenderemos a aceptar nuestras luces y nuestras sombras. Un libro que nos ayuda a deshacernos de los complejos y prejuicios que genera la sociedad. También nos daremos cuenta de que salir de la norma no es malo y lo positivo que puede llegar a ser deshacenos de esta sentencia.

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From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world just felt a bit nicer.' Meg Mason'Wonderful . . . Her best yet' Kathy Burke'I loved it so SO much! Funnier than ever but with a new depth and maturity' Marian Keyes_______________________________________Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of character (neither being particularly inclined to make friends with anyone else). But now, thirty years later, faced with a husband seeking immortality and Norma out of reach on a wave of professional glory, Susan begins to wonder whether she has made the right choices about life, love, work, and, most importantly, friendship.Nina Stibbe's new novel is the story of the wonderful and sometimes surprising path of friendship: from its conspiratorial beginnings, along its irritating wrong turns, to its final gratifying destination._________________________________________________'A lovingly observed testament to the complexities and profundities of female friendship' Elizabeth Day'Nina Stibbe is not just very funny but absolutely life-affirming' Jenny Colgan'Stibbe writes some of the best-turned comic sentences in contemporary writing. Like Susan, she makes it look easier than it must be' Sunday Times'Nina Stibbe is one of our funniest novelists - it's time to take her seriously' Daily Telegraph'Stibbe is one of the all-time greats' Daisy Buchanan'Clever and funny, it takes a sharp look at the intricacies of marriage, friendship, work and driving. As with all Stibbe's writing there is a pleasingly perfect balance of wisdom with jokes' Cathy Rentzenbrink'For beautifully funny and well-observed comic writing, Nina Stibbe is your go-to author. In her latest release, a tale of lifelong friendship between Susan and Norma, she explores the mistakes, rivalries and love we all experience in life' Stylist'One of the great comic writers of our time' Irish Times

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This volume gathers a diverse group of writing, from essays and correspondence to poems and songs, written in honor of Kathleen Fraser on the occasion of her eightieth birthday and celebrated at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco on March 22, 2015. Contributors include Steve Benson, Carolyn Burke, Norma Cole, Beverly Dahlen, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Robert Glück, Brenda Hillman, Jeanne Heuving, Cynthia Hogue, David Larsen, Marina Morbiducci, Patrick Pritchett, Frances Richard, Eléna Rivera, John Sakkis, Lauren Shufran, Brian Teare, Robin Tremblay-McGaw, and Hazel White.

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In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world’s sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and dunes, destroying environments, and exploiting labor in the process. The authors of Vanishing Sands track the devastating impact of legal and illegal sand mining over the past twenty years, ranging from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to South America and the eastern United States. They show how sand mining has reached crisis levels: beach, dune, and river ecosystems are in danger of being lost forever, while organized crime groups use deadly force to protect their illegal mining operations. Calling for immediate and widespread resistance to sand mining, the authors demonstrate that its cessation is paramount for saving not only beaches, dunes, and associated environments but also lives and tourism economies everywhere.

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From Amelia Island just south of Georgia to Key West's southern tip, beaches are one of Florida's greatest assets. Yet these beaches are in danger: rapid structural development on a highly erodible coast make them vulnerable to some of nature's greatest storms. The same development that has been driven by the attraction of beautiful beaches and coastal amenities now threatens those very resources. In turn, coastal structures are at risk from sea-level rise, shoreline retreat, winter storms, and hurricanes. Most of the methods for reducing losses associated with storms protect property only in the short term—at a growing cost in dollars and loss of natural habitat in the long term.Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches is a guide to mitigating or reducing losses of property, human life, and natural resources by living with, rather than just at, the shore. This illustrated volume provides an introduction to coastal processes and geology as well as a brief history of coastal hazards and short-sighted human responses. This is the first volume in the Living with the Shore series to discuss the significant long-term impact of dredge-and-fill beach construction on living marine resources. Guidance is provided for long-term risk reduction in the form of tips on storm-resistant construction and site evaluation; maps for evaluating relative vulnerability to hazards are also included. A brief review of coastal regulations will help property owners understand and navigate the various permit requirements for developing coastal property. Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches is an invaluable source of information for everyone from the curious beach visitor to the community planner, from the prudent property investor to the decision-making public official.

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Montgomery, Runger, and Hubele provide modern coverage of engineering statistics, focusing on how statistical tools are integrated into the engineering problem-solving process. All major aspects of engineering statistics are covered, including descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, statistical test and confidence intervals for one and two samples, building regression models, designing and analyzing engineering experiments, and statistical process control. Developed with sponsorship from the National Science Foundation, this revision incorporates many insights from the authors' teaching experience along with feedback from numerous adopters of previous editions.

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Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted narrations and conversations in Oneida represent a rare collection of first-hand Iroquoian reflections on aspects of daily life and culture not found in print elsewhere. Each text is presented in Oneida with both an interlinear, word-by-word translation and a more colloquial translation in English. The book also contains a grammatical sketch of the Oneida language by Karin Michelson, co-author of the Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary, that describes how words are structured and combined into larger linguistic structures, thus allowing Glimpses to be used as a teaching text as well. The engrossing tales in Glimpses of Oneida Life will be a valuable resource for linguists and language learners, a useful source for those studying the history and culture of Iroquois people in the twentieth-century, and an entertaining read for anyone interested in everyday First Nations life in southern Ontario.

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Hollywood in the 1920s sparkled with talent, confidence, and opportunity. Enter Irving Thalberg of Brooklyn, who survived childhood illness to run Universal Pictures at twenty; co-found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at twenty-four; and, make stars of Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Jean Harlow. Known as Hollywood's 'Boy Wonder', Thalberg created classics such as "Ben-Hur", "Tarzan the Ape Man", "Grand Hotel", "Freaks", "Mutiny on the Bounty", and "The Good Earth", but died tragically at thirty-seven. His place in the pantheon should have been assured, yet his films were not re-issued for thirty years, spurring critics to question his legend and diminish his achievements. In this definitive biography, illustrated with rare photographs, Mark A. Vieira sets the record straight, using unpublished production files, financial records, and correspondence to confirm the genius of Thalberg's methods. In addition, this is the first Thalberg biography to utilize both his recorded conversations and the unpublished memoirs of his wife, Norma Shearer. "Irving Thalberg" is a compelling narrative of power and idealism, revealing for the first time the human being behind the legend.

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This book focuses on state of the art technologies to produce microbiologically safe foods for our global dinner table. Each chapter summarizes the most recent scientific advances, particularly with respect to food processing, pre- and post-harvest food safety, quality control, and regulatory information. The book begins with a general discussion of microbial hazards and their public health ramifications. It then moves on to survey the production processes of different food types, including dairy, eggs, beef, poultry, and fruits and vegetables, pinpointing potential sources of human foodborne diseases. The authors address the growing market in processed foods as well novel interventions such as innovative food packaging and technologies to reduce spoilage organisms and prolong shelf life. Each chapter also describes the ormal flora of raw product, spoilage issues, pathogens of concern, sources of contamination, factors that influence survival and growth of pathogens and spoilage organisms, indicator microorganisms, approaches to maintaining product quailty and reducing harmful microbial populations, microbial standards for end-product testing, conventional microbiological and molecular methods, and regulatory issues. Other important topics include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), predictive microbiology, emerging foodborne pathogens, good agricultural and manufacturing processes, avian influenza, and bioterrorism.

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Collecció de supòsits pràctics relacionats amb les matèries objecte d'examen en les proves selectives per al Cos d'Auxiliars Administratius de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Estructurats de forma lògica i didàctica, contenen les referències a les normes de necessari coneixement per a la resolució dels casos i estan compostos per preguntes objectives tipus test amb les respostes motivades ressenyant l'article o la norma que justifica la seva exactitud. Així mateix s'inclou una part teòrica sobre documentació i arxiu administratiu de gran utilitat per al coneixement de les funcions a desenvolupar.

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Una novela de Edgar Neville que, aunque teñida de humor, contiene una propuesta seria: la bondad como norma de conducta, que desafía tanto el qué dirán como los intereses íntimamente egoístas de quien trate de llevarla a la práctica. La novela se desarrolla en parte en un Madrid castizo, descrito con detalle tanto en lo que se refiere a los lugares como a los personajes que lo pueblan y es también un retrato de la vida en provincias de la España de la primera posguerra. Ironía, humor y optimismo de la prosa de este valioso escritor que fué Edgar Neville.

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A group of aliens have landed on Earth from Planet Norma Alpha and they are causing mischief. Rita has to call on all her special powers as she smashes an asteroid, takes a lost Norm back to his flying saucer, and then shows the visitors the quickest way home through space. Join in the hilarious adventures of Rita Potter who when she dons her special cloak and boots becomes Rita the Rescuer, strong, fast and fearless, and able to rescue her siblings and others from danger or disaster. These wonderfully funny stories are perfect for early readers with colour illustrations on every page.

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