According to Kathleen Kelley Reardon, we are responsible for 75 per cent of how we're treated at work. And that success - or failure - depends on how we handle ourselves in conversation with our colleagues, whether in one-on-one interactions or large meetings. Workplace conversations are like a ches[...]
At the turn of the twentieth century, Ellen Rimbauer became the young bride of Seattle industrialist John Rimbauer, and began keeping a remarkable diary. This diary became the secret place where Ellen could confess her fears of the new marriage, her confusion over her emerging sexuality, and the nig[...]
In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to participate in a tour of this hallowed ground. Ideal for carrying on trips through the park as well as for the armchair historian, this book includes comprehensive maps and deft descriptions of the ac[...]
Improve your ability to perform and interpret emergency ultrasound exams with this unique pocket atlas. Featuring more than 400 ultrasound images, dozens of illustrations, and concise, bulleted text, "Pocket Atlas of Emergency Ultrasound" allows you to instantly compare and contrast your real-time i[...]
Dysmorphology is the study of congenital malformations and is one of the core areas of clinical genetics. Often the first professional seeing these birth defects is a pediatrician, who notices, for example, that the ears may be rather low set. While in itself minor, this physical sign may indicate[...]
an excellent guide to community Legal Service Funding in family proceedings, divorce, nullity and judicial separation s New Law Journal[...]
This essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology -- a structured, short-term problem-solving approach -- applicable across systems at five levels of practice: the individual, the family, the group, organizations, and communities. The second edition offers more information on systems theori[...]
In The Secret Handshake, top corporate consultant and USC management professor Kathleen Reardon explores and reveals the hidden rules on the ins and outs of corporate politics that you won?t find outlined in any employee handbook.
Based on hundreds of candid interviews with executives at Fortune[...]
From her very first book, "Serve It Forth," M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. "M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans," interspersed[...]
From her very first book, "Serve It Forth", M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. "M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans", interspersed[...]
With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we "really "know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced[...]
A National Bestseller
Winner of an International Association of Culinary Professionals Award for Literary Food Writing
"An absorbing portrait of an unexpected friendship." -- "Entertainment Weekly"
"Julia's inimitable voice shines through . . . These letters offer a] glimpse of how the [...]
This lavishly illustrated field guide features more than 800 species of the most common, interesting, beautiful, and important owlet (noctuid) caterpillars found in eastern North America. More than 2,100 color photographs include numerous stunning images, and the guide's introductory sections offer [...]
When he is shipped off to Straight to God, an institution devoted to "deprogramming" troubled teenagers, Taylor Adams learns valuable lessons in love, courage, rebellion, and betrayal in a place where piety is a mask for cruelty and the greatest crimes go unpunished. Original.[...]
"Doing an Undergraduate Project" is a practical step-by-step guide to managing and developing a successful undergraduate project. The book covers all aspects of project management, explaining in a clear and structured way how to undertake a project and helping readers to identify and acquire the nec[...]