Every day, thousands of hidden and ignored problems frustrate workers and customers and, in turn, reduce profits. The key to finding and fixing these problems is to engage employees closest to the work and closest to the customer in new ways so they can contribute their ideas. This book provides rules that, if followed, will allow employees to harvest all the low hanging fruit and some that is not so low hanging that will grow earnings, make customers happier, and increase morale. Some exa...

Foundations of Therapeutic Recreation, Second Edition, introduces students to the many career possibilities in the field of therapeutic recreation. Drawing on the combined wisdom and expertise of editors Terry Long and Terry Robertson, as well as 20 contributing authors who represent a broad spectrum of experiences within the discipline, the text provides the foundational concepts that are essential for understanding the profession.One of the more significant updates to th...

Meet Andy Richards. Andy is a nine year old aardvark. Andy couldn't be more excited because today is the first day of the fourth grade. Tag along with Andy, Barnet, Clara and Joey in all their adventures in The Life and Times of Andy Richards, the new series of short stories from Long Story Press.

Dr. James Carter: The Rise and Fall of a Surgeon's Life Struggling with AddictionsDr. James Carter was once at the top of his field—a highly respected surgeon with a loving family, a successful career, and a seemingly perfect life. But beneath the surface, a dark secret lurked. By day, he performed life-saving surgeries; by night, he battled a dangerous addiction to drugs and gambling that slowly eroded everything he had worked for. As his double life spirals out of control, the st...

The purpose of this book is to offer seven teachings that teach Christian parenting skills. This book will teach parents how to reinforce their children's desirable behavior and how to extinguish their children's undesired behavior by using biblical principles. The issues addressed are communication skills, discipline, fighting, drugs, premarital sex, school, and making house rules. The age range of the children for whom this book is designed are children between the ages of thirteen and e...

From the Wright Brothers' twelve seconds aloft to the Moon landings less than a lifetime later, the story of aviation is not just a series of astonishing advances made at breathtaking speed. It's also about the courage and ingenuity of the men and women who made such rapid progress possible; about the romance of soaring above the clouds; and perhaps most of all about the exciting and exhilarating realisation of a dream which is literally centuries old.

A single spy can save thousands of lives.Spies and secret agents have been hard at work for centuries, risking their lives, and sometimes changing the course of history. Discover twenty-seven of the most courageous and daring, including Britain's first female spy, a teacher turned saboteur, the spy who sang for Hitler and the man who never was . . .An unputdownable collection of real life adventures, stunningly illustrated by Terri Po.