In today's competitive marketplace, the flow of goods and services to customers must not be hindered by obstacles such as maintenance downtime. To stay on top, managers must implement strategies that keep operations performing at high levels. Uptime, 2nd Edition, is an updated and expanded version o[...]

To watch a child grieve and not know what to do is a profoundly difficult experience for parents, teachers, and caregivers. Yet, there are guidelines for helping children develop a lifelong, healthy response to loss.In When Children Grieve, the authors offer a cutting-edge volume to free children fr[...]

Updated for its 20th anniversary, this classic guide that has helped so many people get through loss, now has even more to offer. The new material in this edition will include specific guidelines that will show readers how to choose which grief or loss they should work on first. In addition, losses [...]

This is the definitive guide to the theory of constraints. In this authoritative volume, the world's top Theory of Constraints (TOC) experts reveal how to implement the ground-breaking management and improvement methodology developed by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt. "Theory of Constraints Handbook" offer[...]

This is the cornerstone text in emergency ultrasound - fully updated and expanded. Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound has virtually defined the field since the first edition was released. This trusted classic expertly covers the training, techniques, and diagnostic skills for successful point-of-c[...]

Rev. ed. of: History of education in America: Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merrill, c2007.

Marketing for Hospitality and Tourism, 6e is the definitive source for hospitality marketing courses. Taking an integrative approach, this highly visual, four-color book discusses hospitality marketing from a team perspective, examining each hospitality department and its role in the marketing mecha[...]

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, "The Federalist Papers" had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended [...]

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers
On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork "The Grapes of Wrath"?and at the height of the American war effort?John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and i[...]

Do people have free will, or this universal belief an illusion? If free will is more than an illusion, what kind of free will do people have? How can free will influence behavior? Can free will be studied, verified, and understood scientifically? How and why might a sense of free will have evolv[...]

Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover and new teaching materials. These titles were originally labelled as "Stage 11 Pack A".[...]

Includes covers, a "TreeTops" logo, parental notes on inside back cover and new teaching materials. These titles were originally labelled as "Stage 11 Pack A".[...]