Effective leadership is more crucial than ever before. In fact, the link between effective leadership and corporate health is backed up by hard data, as best-selling author Judith M. Bardwick explains in her contributed article to The AMA Handbook of Leadership. Study after study shows that leadership quality directly impacts employee commitment - and employee commitment predicts an organization's financial success.
You'll learn about this and other important research, trends, and perspectives in this one-of-a-kind compendium of original writings from some of the leading thinkers and doers in the field. There's not a single 'system' for sale here, but a gathering of twenty-three succinct, on-target articles on what it means to be an effective leader today, as well as proven strategies for leading people and organizations to success.
Packed with real-life examples, research-based assessments, and probing analyses, The AMA Handbook of Leadership's brisk, stimulating articles give you a broad perspective on new leadership challenges and strategies - including some refreshingly contrarian opinions and observations. Browse the book for a thorough overview or pick the best possible ideas for you and your organization.

Both a landscape designer and a public artist, Ken Smith produces designs that range in scale from small public installations to vast parks. He is known for inventive and imaginative gardens and landscapes, some of which use little or no natural plant material. His projects include public, commercial, and private work: urban parks, streetscapes, plazas, gardens, public art commissions, memorials, museums and institutions, urban development and multiuse projects, restoration of modern-era landscapes, waterfront planning and design, and residential projects.

Among Smith's best-known projects are the MoMA Roof Garden, consisting of white gravel, recycled black rubber, crushed glass, sculptural stones, and artificial boxwood plants in a camouflage pattern; the Elevated Acre, a one-acre urban plaza with a sloping topography of planted dunes and an elevated view of New York Harbor; and Orange County Great Park, California, a redevelopment of a Marine Corps air station to include a 2.5-mile canyon, 20-acre lake, cultural terrace, botanical gardens, great lawn, performing arts venue, veterans memorial, aircraft museum, sports park, nature preserve, and wildlife corridor.

This incredible book tells you how the brain works, how it helps you survive in the world, and how it makes you the person that you are. You can study the different functions, areas, and states of the brain, and at each stage, there are cool games, quizzes, puzzles, brain teasers, and more! The activities show readers how their brains can work even better, making this a challenging, informative, and practical book; the only one of its kind on the market.

This is a textbook intended for use in an introductory course in Anglo-American legal history. Authors Langbein (law and legal history, Yale Law School), Lerner (law, George Washington U. Law School), and Smith (co-director, Illinois Legal History Program, U. of Illinois College of Law) explore the origins and development of the main legal institutions of Anglo-American law and discuss their distinctions from the European legal systems. The two major themes are the emergence and incessant transformation of the jury system, including judge/jury relations, across eight centuries of civil and criminal justice and the law-equity division from the emergence of the Court of Chancery in the 14th century down through the Judicature Acts of the 1870s and equity's 'conquest' of common law in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure of 1938. Other major themes include the development of the legal profession, the literature of the law, and legal education. Also discussed are the history of pretrial investigation, policing, trial, sanctions, and sentencing; the movement toward nonjury and nontrial resolution of cases in criminal and civil procedure; and such distinctly American developments as the elective bench, the student-edited law review, and the pervasive influence of race relations on the law of criminal procedure. Alongside the textual narrative, the authors also include historical documents and extracts from the historical literature in order to provide students with a look at some of the foundational documents of Anglo-American law and examples of the sorts of sources from which legal historians work. Some 200 images illustrate the work. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A key team member behind The Secret and his business partner offer the specific tools and mental strategies to help readers leap ahead in any career or business venture and achieve major financial success.

In this visionary work, New York Times bestselling author John Assaraf and business guru Murray Smith reinvent the business book for the twenty-first century. Two of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world, they combine forces to bring their special insights and techniques together in a revolutionary guide for success in the modern business environment.

Assaraf and Smith know how to minimize risk and maximize success, and The Answer provides a framework for sharing their wisdom, experience, and skills with the millions of people who want to accomplish their own dreams in life. Using cutting-edge research into brain science and quantum physics, they show how readers can actually rewire their brains for success and create the kind of extraordinary lives they want. By teaching readers how to attract and use newly discovered 'uncommon' senses to achieve business success, the authors demonstrate the beliefs, habits, thoughts, and actions that they have used to build eighteen multimillion-dollar companies.

Any reader who follows this step-by-step process to build his or her career will experience an enormous life transformation and reach an exceptional level of living.

This heavily illustrated book provides current enemy intelligence and then the advanced tactical technique to handle it. But this intelligence doesn't come from some foreign shore; it comes from the borders, highways, and cities of America—with the enemy being international organized crime. The book first shows which Hispanic and Asian gangs control the wholesale distribution of drugs. Then, it provides chapters on drug route identification, hostage rescue, and collateral-damage-free defense. These topics should be of great interest to both police and military. The lessons of Homeland Siege will make U.S. streets safer to walk and Afghan villages easier to pacify.

Your one-stop guide to surviving and enjoying the Great Outdoors

Want to know how to stay alive in extreme situations? This practical, accurate guide gives you all the expert, field-tested tools and techniques you need to survive. Whether you find yourself lost in the woods, adrift on a life raft, bitten by a snake, or needing shelter in cold weather, this hands-on resource teaches you how to stay safe (and sane), find rescue, and live to tell the tale!

• Know the basics of survival — perform life-saving first aid, make fire and shelter, and find water and food

• Manage your emotions — cope with panic and anger, get the 'survivor's attitude,' and foster cooperation and hope with others

• Increase your chances of rescue — signal for help and navigate using a compass or the sky

• Practice expert survival methods — tie essential knots, craft your own weapons and tools, and make natural remedies

• Gain wisdom for water emergencies — stay afloat when your ship or boat sinks, avoid dehydration and starvation, and make it to shore

Open the book and find:

• Common survival scenarios you may encounter

• Tried-and-tested advice for individuals or groups

• The items you need to stay alive

• Basic orientation skills

• Ways to keep warm or cool

• The best methods for building a fire in any environment

• What you can (and can't) eat and drink in the wild

• True stories of survival

Hockensmith is a Kentucky-based photographer who focuses his lens on the Kentucky Derby and exotic breeds of horses. Here he intersperses photos with a narrative that begins with prehistory and then turns to horses of conquistadors, plains Indians, explorers, and cowboys. His narrative continues with the 20th-century horse, and the epilogue looks at Spanish mustangs. The concluding portfolio of photographs occupies 80 pages and contains minimal test (some Native American wisdom and some poems and writings by the author); it represents work presented in an exhibition at the Headley-Whitney Museum, August 2009. The volume is oversize (9.5x12') allowing for generous display of the images. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Epigenetic modifications act on DNA and its packaging proteins, the histones, to regulate genome function. Manifest as the heritable methylation of DNA and as post-translational histone modifications, these molecular flags influence the architecture and integrity of the chromosome, the accessibility of DNA to gene regulatory components and the ability of chromatin to interact within nuclear complexes. While a multicellular individual has only one genome, it has multiple epigenomes reflecting the diversity of cell types and their properties at different times of life; in health and in disease. Relationships are emerging between the underlying DNA sequence and dynamic epigenetic states and their consequences,such as the role of RNA interference and non-coding RNA. These integrated approaches go hand-in-hand with studies describing the genomic locations of epigenetic modifications in different cell types at different times.The excitement and curiosity surrounding epigenomics is driven by a growing community of researchers in a burgeoning field and the development of new technologies built on the backbone of genome sequencing projects. Research has shown that the adaptability and vulnerability of epigenetic states has profound effects on natural variation, the response of the genome to its environment and on health and disease.The aim of this volume is not to describe epigenomes, but rather to explore how understanding epigenomes tells us more about how biological systems work and the challenges and approaches taken to accomplish this. These contributions have attempted to integrate epigenomics into our understanding of genomes in wider context, and to communicate some of the wonders of epigenetics illustrated through examples across the biological spectrum.

'Two-volume catalogue raisonne of Schoonover's entire oeuvre, from early sketches to final paintings. Chronologically organized and numbered by his daybook entries, it includes over 3000 full color and black-and-white images, a biography and timeline, lists of exhibitions and magazines illustrated, two additional bibliographies, and three indices'--Provided by publisher.

Paradise ain't easy! In the future utopian metropolis of Olympus, a blazing beacon of humanity amidst a post-global-war wasteland, ESWAT agents Deunan and Briareos have fought tooth and nail to keep the peace and prevent Olympus from sliding back into chaos. When Olympus intelligence learns of a giant Landmate powersuit being built in secrecy, and on the threshhold of a top-secret international conference of the highest importance to be held in Olympus, ESWAT is mobilized to crack the mystery and disrupt a terrorist operation that could turn the fragile peace into World War IV!
From the imagination of Ghost in the Shell creator Shirow Masamune comes the manga masterpiece Appleseed, an epic cyberpunk vision deftly balancing hardcore techno-science, wry political commentary, and explosive action. A visionary work that inspired the wildly popular animated film, Appleseed is now presented for the first time in America in right-to-left reading format, as originally published in Japan.

Dopo avere assistito all'omicidio della moglie per opera di un demone, John Winchester inizia un viaggio nell'oscuro mondo del sovrannaturale, alla ricerca di un modo per stanare e uccidere la creatura che gli ha portato via Mary. Ma cosa succederà ai suoi due giovani figli, Dean e Sam? Riuscirà un uomo da poco rimasto vedovo a portare avanti la lotta alle forze del male mentre cresce due bambini? O il suo ruolo di padre passerà in secondo piano rispetto alla sua crociata ossessiva?

'La risposta' di Assaraf e Murray contiene gli strumenti specifici e le strategie mentali che loro stessi hanno utilizzato per diventare uomini d'affari di successo. Questo libro fornisce un metodo rivoluzionario per avere maggiore prosperità nella vita. Il potere della nostra mente e dell'immaginazione è illimitato, per sfruttarlo occorre però applicare a fondo la Legge di Attrazione con strategie pratiche e dalla comprovata efficacia. La realizzazione nel lavoro e nella vita avverrà passo dopo passo, semplicemente focalizzando la nostra passione e la nostra ferrea volontà nel raggiungimento dei nostri sogni.

Some thought them dangerous, others credited them with recovering original Christianity. The Sandemanians, a sect with roots in the turmoil of eighteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism, espoused a radical theology that influenced the development of American Christianity. Founder John Glas blended elements of fundamentalist New Testament Christianity with Enlightenment philosophy to create what he believed to be 'the perfect rule of the Christian religion.' The history and legacy of the Sandemanians are given full attention in these pages, which reveal the origins of the sect in Scotland and follow its greatest proselyte, Robert Sandeman, across the Atlantic to New England. Author John Howard Smith shows how such a minor sectarian movement could create so much controversy at the time of the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution. The churches Sandeman established were eventually crushed by the Revolution, their adherents scattered, never to grow into a denomination. The Sandemanians are little known today, yet elements of their theology played a key role in the future of American Christianity.

Smith (education, U. of Hull) explores the expansion in education that occurred in Victorian England and the rise of the elementary teaching profession, frequently provided in the beginning by local clergymen. The author also examines the economic and social relationships of the clergymen/teachers with each other and the eventual conflicts that arose in villages in the last third of the 19th century as the clergy attempted to protect its claim to status and power, and teachers (both men and women) worked to cement their new place in society. The author based his research on original sources, including church records, newspapers and journals, and private papers. Distributed in the U.S. by ISBS. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The 1968 TV episode 'Assignment Earth' had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, John Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek's future. Byrne writes and draws the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with 1968, the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.

The new edition of this best-selling text has been reviewed and revised to clarify and update an understanding of mathematical concepts necessary for success in the machine trades and manufacturing fields. Mathematics for Machine Technology, Sixth Edition overcomes the often mechanical 'plug in' approach found in many trade-related texts. A complete grasp of mathematical concepts are emphasized in the presentation and application of a wide-range of topics from general arithmetic processes to oblique trigonometry, compound angles, and numerical control. The material covered by this text is accompanied by realistic industry-related examples, illustrations, and actual applications, which progress from the simple to the relatively complex. Mathematics for Machine Technology, Sixth Edition provides readers with practical vocational and technical applications of mathematical concepts necessary to excel in the machine, tool-and-die, and tool design industry.

While it's the meal that should unite us as followers of Christ, it sometimes appears we can't even agree on what to call it, let alone how we might share a common theological view of its significance. Even if we cannot reach full agreement, how can we better understand one another and this central observance of the Christian faith?
Gordon Smith has invited five representatives of differing views within Christian tradition. Each holds his or her views with conviction and makes the case for that tradition. Each responds to the other views with charity, highlighting significant areas of agreement and disagreement.