Product Description: Book by Sfar, Joann, Trondheim, Lewis

This clear, accessible treatment of mathematics features a building-block approach toward problem solving, realistic and diverse applications, and chapter organizer to help users focus their study and become effective and confident problem solvers. The Putting Your Skills to Work and new chapter-end feature, Math in the Media, present readers with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills, analyze and interpret data, and problem solve using applied situations encountered in daily life. Earlier coverage of the Order of Arithmetic Operations—now section 1.5 so that operations is now covered together before Introduction to Algebra. The discussion of solving linear equations in Chapter 2 now includes coverage of equations with no solution and equations with infinitely many solutions. Section 4.3 now offers a more thorough introduction to polynomials, with the addition of new terminology at the beginning of the section and a new lesson on evaluating polynomials at the end. Revised Ch. 7 on Graphing and Functions includes new coverage of the rectangular coordinate system and slope. The coverage of the rectangular coordinate system in Chapter 7 has been improved for greater clarity.

Follows the adventures of Herbert the Timorous Duck and his vegetarian dragon friend Marvin as they attempt to defend Dungeon, a mighty castle filled with goblins, monsters, and trolls.

Conflicts surround us daily; we see it between countries, cities, and even neighbors. Often over-looked, but equally important, is the conflict that arises between and among coworkers. This book has proven successful with professional audiences, offering clear, usable advice on how to manage conflicts that arise on the job and in personal relationships. The authors have created a five-step model of approaching and analyzing interpersonal conflict, and this model is applied repeatedly to different topics, providing readers with a genuinely effective structure for working through differences with colleagues, friends, and others. Designed for managers and human resource departments.

Product Description: Nota: En los titulos y nombres de autores, los marcos ortograficos han sido omitidos para facilitar las busquedas de Internet. Description del libro en espanol: Mucho antes de que Tierra Amata fuese el escenario de las aventuras de Herbert el Pato, antes de que Marvin el Destructor fuese el coneje rojo mas famose del pais, antes de la construccion de la Mazmorra...read more

Aimed at students of business management and also practising managers, this series covers the five main areas of - marketing, finance, personnel, production and operations, and language reference. Each of the four management books is based around those areas essential for learners who need to develop their knowledge of management principles and practices, together with business communication skills. All the management books draw on mainstream management texts used for teaching and on courses throughout the world. The language reference book forms an integral part of the series, covering the essential elements of the language, and provides practical guidance on business communication. Language skills are developed within the context of business management. The book covers: the operations function; planning operations; organizing operations; controlling operations; quality management; and human resources management.

Contemporary Financial Reporting: A Casebook

This book provides a balanced survey of theory and practical aspects of computer-controlled systems. Design methods and practical aspects of computer controlled systems are presented. Interactive use of MATLAB and Simulink macros to understand the theory. Presents extensive pedagogical aids, such as worked examples, MATLAB macros, solutions manual, and problems to facilitate understanding.

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This book helps English-learners increase their vocabulary, improve their reading skills, and comprehend material from a variety of written genres. Includes readings and follow-up exercises from such genres as expository writing, personal notes, ads, labels, fables, and magazine articles. For beginning ESL learners.

Covering the entire period of modern German history - from nineteenth-century imperial Germany right through the present - this well-established text presents a balanced, general survey of the country's political division in 1945 and runs through its reunification in the present. Detailing foreign policy as well as political, economic and social developments, A History of Modern Germany presents a central theme of the problem of asymmetrical modernization in the country's history as it fully explores the complicated path of Germany's troubled past and stable present.

This practical approach to the basics of human thermal comfort uses graphical displays to illustrate the interactions of weather, construction materials, and mechanical systems in architecture. Contents include chapters devoted to basic theory, climate and shelter considerations, building materials, building heat loss and heat gain, mechanical systems, and mechanical system noise and vibrations.

Mister i devises a number of strategies and copies those of other characters in repeated and disastrously unsuccessful attempts to acquire various items of food in this wordless story in comic book format.

Goofy, silent, one page gags crammed with little frames showing Mr. O, a round doodle of a man, desperately trying to get over across that darn chasm, yet somehow never quite making it over to the other side.