The 2012 Pfeiffer Annual

The 2012 Pfeiffer Annual
Author: Elaine Biech
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2011-10-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118124650

The Leader in Resources for Training & HR Professionals for the Past Four Decades For 40 years, The Pfeiffer Annuals have helped consultants, experts, and academics in the field to stay informed and ahead of the curve. The 2012 Pfeiffer Consulting Annual is a toolkit of ideas, methods, techniques, and models that support your work as an internal or external organizational consultant. It addresses the broad range of topics that are of most interest to professionals in the field. The materials provide accessible means of interacting with a diverse variety of systems and processes—from collaborative workflows and executive coaching to strategic planning and organizational development. This Annual presents a "Learning in the Moment" theme. It addresses today's hectic world of immediate need and urgent access and includes information on teams and groups, leadership, communication, organizations, and problem solving. Experiential Learning Activities (ELAs) cover a broad range of consulting topics. The activities are presented as ready-to-use designs for working with groups: facilitator instructions and all necessary handouts are included. ELAs showcasing the theme cover storytelling, leadership, change management, and diversity. The Inventories, Questionnaires, and Surveys section contains tools to help respondents take an objective look at themselves or their organizations and determine how a particular theory applies to their situations. Don't miss the Cultural Readiness Scale for WEB 2.0 in this section. The articles section presents the current thinking about workplace communications, leadership, and individual development. Travis L. Russ, Jean Lamkin, Mohandas Nair, Linda Raudenbush, and Leonard Goodstein have contributed must-read articles. And while the article by Jennifer Labin is a part of the theme, the topic of engagement is a part of discussions in almost every organization. Year after year, the Consulting Annual has provided thousands of professionals with up-to-date information and tools to make organizations more effective. Delve into this volume and you will understand why it is the most reliable source for practical, professional, performance-boosting tools and fresh ideas. Discover more at www.pfeiffer.com

Michael Allen's 2008 e-Learning Annual

Michael Allen's 2008 e-Learning Annual
Author: Michael W. Allen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2008-02-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470249102

The field of e-learning has experienced dramatic, and at times chaotic, growth. Over time, as technology has improved and its advantages have become clear, e-learning has gained widespread acceptance. It is now the fastest growing sector of corporate learning. Michael Allen’s 2008 e-Learning Annual presents a wide range of perspectives from some of the earliest and most renowned leaders in field. This important resource will help both educators and trainers create, purchase, and apply quality e-learning programs more effectively. It provides a wealth of applicable history and guidance for all persons contemplating e-learning, from the student to the organizational leader. It frankly and objectively presents lessons learned and the critical steps to success. Michael Allen’s 2008 e-Learning Annual is part of the Pfeiffer Annual series, first published in 1972.

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools

The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools
Author: Elaine Biech
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 515
Release: 2007-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470184981

Year after year, consultants, trainers, and human resource professionals have come to rely on The Pfeiffer Annuals to provide them with the most current and quality tools on a wide variety of topics. In this book, editor Elaine Biech and contributors to the Annuals have honed in on the important theme of team building to create the first topic-specific book in The Pfeiffer Annuals series. The Pfeiffer Book of Successful Team-Building Tools, 2nd Edition, includes an innovative ten-block model for building a high-performance team and draws on the best-on-the-topic articles from thirty-five years of Annuals volumes.

The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual

The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual
Author: Robert C. Preziosi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2007-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470179570

The Leader in Human Resource Development for the Past Four Decades The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development Since 1972, The Pfeiffer Annuals have been the most trusted resource for presenting the best current thinking about workplace performance, training, and organizational and professional development. Now, the addition of The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development builds on that great tradition to offer an essential source of guidance, opinions, and practical solutions on issues of interest and concern to training and human resource professionals. The 2008 Pfeiffer Annual: Management Development provides instant access to a wealth of knowledge about management development, and proven tools that can be put to use with a minimum of preparation. The ?Annual covers an expansive range of topics grouped around four core themes: Planning, Organizing, Leading, and Coordinating, and provides an essential bridge between the theories of management, and its practice in organizations, from multi-national corporations to not-for-profit enterprises. The depth and breadth of available resources-new content will be added to the Annual every year-ensures a steady stream of contemporary knowledge and tools. Use the Annuals as a valuable source of knowledge for professional development.

Serving the Gifted

Serving the Gifted
Author: Steven I. Pfeiffer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415997496

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Molecular Biology

Molecular Biology
Author: Nancy L. Craig
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1018
Release: 2021-01-20
Genre:
ISBN: 0198788657

A fresh, distinctive approach to the teaching of molecular biology. With its focus on key principles, its emphasis on the commonalities that exist between the three kingdoms of life, and its integrated coverage of experimental methods and approaches, Molecular Biology is the perfect companion to any molecular biology course.

Creatively Gifted Students are not like Other Gifted Students

Creatively Gifted Students are not like Other Gifted Students
Author: Kyung Hee Kim
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2013-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9462091498

This book focuses on the needs of creatively gifted students and how schools can meet those needs. Creatively gifted students show exceptional levels of creativity. These students may or may not have developed other talents and abilities, yet. Even when their abilities and talents are apparent, the needs of creatively gifted students may not be recognized by current gifted education programs. Regardless of whether a creatively gifted student is included in these programs, schools often inadvertently ignore their special needs. The goal of this book is to share the newest research about the attributes and needs of creatively gifted students and the kinds of programs that best address those special needs. The overarching goal of this book is to share with scholars, educators, and practitioners the latest research on creatively gifted students and the kinds of programs that best meet the unique needs of these students. Through the knowledge and experiences shared here, we hope to help close the gap between what these children need and what they are getting.

The Chemistry of Oil and Petroleum Products

The Chemistry of Oil and Petroleum Products
Author: Merv Fingas
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2022-06-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3110694522

This book is devoted to the chemistry of oil and petroleum products and covers the broad range of topics from heavy fuel oils, crude oils and (diluted) bitumen to today‘s research on asphaltenes. Recent methods are summarized and the large new groups of chemicals found in oils are identifi ed as well as described. The work points the way for a more complete understanding of the composition of petroleum. Highlights include: An update on oil fi ngerprinting New data using Fourier transform mass spectrometry, forensic tools for naphthenic acid fraction compounds in oil sand environmental samples Data on vanadium and nickel content changes in the resins of heavy oils, characteristics of their structural and group composition, and the content of heteroatomic (N, S, O) compounds Study of asphaltenes using direct molecular imaging employing atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) confi rming early findings of the dominance of the ‘island’ molecular structure An update on the Yen-Mullins model of asphaltenes in reservoirs giving the requisite solution to the asphaltene particle size, thus resolving the gravity term for thermodynamic modeling. A modifi ed polymer solution theory, the Flory-Huggins-Zuo (FHZ) EoS, is provided to model asphaltene gradients in reservoirs. A suite of oils from the Tarim Basin, Qaidam Basin, Ordos Basin, and Liaohe Basin, China is characterized geochemically to clarify factors that can affect the concentrations and distributions of pyrrolic nitrogen compounds (PNCs) in crude oils. An update on biomarkers in crude oils Updates on mass spectrometry techniques applicable to crude oils

Black Picket Fences

Black Picket Fences
Author: Mary Pattillo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022602122X

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.

Managing Diversity

Managing Diversity
Author: Michalle E. Mor Barak
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2022-01-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1544333080

The award-winning Managing Diversity uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective.