A Note To Find focuses on a newly graduated genealogical researcher out of Boston who has been invited to visit the family home of her mother in Seattle, WA. She is the only relative left in her family, or so she thinks. The story weaves in history and genealogy of the family coming to America back in the day, their life on the east coast, how the families traveled across country in covered wagons to get to Oregon and finally the main families settling in Seattle. We have a very friendly c...

Navigate the evolving world of procurement and elevate your career. Procurement at a Crossroads provides actionable insights for professionals facing a rapidly changing industry. Learn to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution, build influence, and master supplier relationships.This guide helps you:Understand the shifting landscape of procurement.Develop a strategic vision for your career.Balance strategic and ...

In the Victorian era, women were expected to be pure and modest, and any discussion of sex was considered taboo. But one man dared to challenge this convention. R. B. Armitage, a physician and sexologist, wrote "Private Sex Advice to Women" in 1892, a groundbreaking book that offered women frank and explicit advice on sexual matters. Armitage's book was controversial at the time, but it was also a valuable resource for women who were seeking information about their own bodies and sexuality...

Narratives of journeys, voyages, and pilgrimages often guide readers to questions about humanism and humanity from a holistic perspective. The chapters in this volume explore narratives of both real and imagined journeys and examine their religious, psychological, psychoanalytical, philosophical, educational, and historical implications. What emerges is an understanding of narratives of journeys across cultural borders as powerful educational tools that can model and contribute to meaningf...

Intelligent and Effective Learning Based on the Model for Systematic Concept Teaching - Practitioner's Manual for the Systematic Concept Teaching (SCT) Approach to the Prevention and Remediation of Learning Difficulties brings the ground-breaking concepts of Systematic Concept Teaching (SCT) to an entirely new audience. Expanding on the original work of the late Norwegian Educator Magne Nyborg, authors Andreas Hansen and Kelly Morgan have written this comprehensive English text ma...

This Abbreviated version of the more Comprehensive book, Intelligent and Effective Learning Based on the Model for Systematic Concept Teaching, does not include website access codes or print supplements that come with the Comprehensive version.The Abbreviated version of the manual Intelligent and Effective Learning Based on the Model for Systematic Concept Teaching - Practitioner's Manual for the Systematic Concept Teaching (SCT) Approach to the Prevention and Remediat...

The procurement profession is at a major crossroads. Practitioners are responding to pressure from executive leadership to become more strategic, in some cases eliminating tactical work through outsourcing or automation. At the same time, performance metrics emphasize the need to continue negotiating savings and managing supplier performance. Procurement at a Crossroads: Career-Impacting Insights into a Rapidly Changing Industry aids practitioners in developing a vision for their medium- a...

This collection seeks to broaden the discussion of the child image by close analysis of the child and childhood as depicted in non-Western cinemas. Each essay offers a counter-narrative to Western notions of childhood by looking critically at alternative visions of childhood that does not privilege a Western ideal. Rather, this collection seeks to broaden our ideas about children, childhood, and the child’s place in the global community. This collection features a wide variety of contribut...

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Timeless advice from the pages of Harvard Business ReviewYou want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them--in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on strategy, change leadership, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your performance.This six-title collection includes only the most cri...

Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter’s frameworks are the foundation. But while everyone in business may know Porter’s name, many managers misunderstand and misuse his concepts.Understanding Michael Porter sets the record straight, providing the first concise, accessible summary of Porter’s revolutionar...

An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business ReviewChange is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their...