Author : Robert D. Smith
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0849948541
How would our thought process change if we measured our lives in days, instead of in years? Smith decided to put this concept to the test-- and walked away with life-changing information. He reveals a simple plan that will allow you to master your life, starting right now.
Author : Robert Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2014-11-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781608102730
Most people measure their life in years. But what if you could live each day with intense purpose, constant joy, and lasting influence. 20,000 Days and Counting provides simple strategies that will allow you to be 100 percent present and intentional with every passing minute of every day, for the rest of your life.
Author : Robert D. Smith
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0849964407
The day for change is today and it's more simple than you realize. Most people sleepwalk through day-to-day life, passively letting time slip away. Unfortunately, the only thing that can usually wake people up to the intensity of life is impending death. But what if it didn't have to be that way? 20,000 Days presents breathtakingly simple strategies and concepts that, once applied, will enable readers to be 100% present and intentional with every passing minute of every day, for the rest of their lives. The book is designed to be read in under an hour and the effect is immediate. Within each segment are tactics for mastering control for your life; principles such as: Motivation is a myth You only have two choices, yes and no How to conquer rejection forever How BECOMING the problem will SOLVE all your problems Three sentences that will change your life immediately These timeless principles apply to everyone from the pending graduate to the seasoned business professional; from the time-starved parent to the weary pastor to the restless entrepreneur. On the 20,000th day of his life, the author sent an email that inspired and reminded a group of people of all ages to live in the moment. This group now includes you.
Author : Chip Heath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1982165456
A clear, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to communicating and understanding numbers and data—from bestselling business author Chip Heath. How much bigger is a billion than a million? Well, a million seconds is twelve days. A billion seconds is…thirty-two years. Understanding numbers is essential—but humans aren’t built to understand them. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five—anything from six to infinity was known as “lots.” While the numbers in our world have gotten increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. How can we translate millions and billions and milliseconds and nanometers into things we can comprehend and use? Author Chip Heath has excelled at teaching others about making ideas stick and here, in Making Numbers Count, he outlines specific principles that reveal how to translate a number into our brain’s language. This book is filled with examples of extreme number makeovers, vivid before-and-after examples that take a dry number and present it in a way that people click in and say “Wow, now I get it!” You will learn principles such as: -SIMPLE PERSPECTIVE CUES: researchers at Microsoft found that adding one simple comparison sentence doubled how accurately users estimated statistics like population and area of countries. -VIVIDNESS: get perspective on the size of a nucleus by imagining a bee in a cathedral, or a pea in a racetrack, which are easier to envision than “1/100,000th of the size of an atom.” -CONVERT TO A PROCESS: capitalize on our intuitive sense of time (5 gigabytes of music storage turns into “2 months of commutes, without repeating a song”). -EMOTIONAL MEASURING STICKS: frame the number in a way that people already care about (“that medical protocol would save twice as many women as curing breast cancer”). Whether you’re interested in global problems like climate change, running a tech firm or a farm, or just explaining how many Cokes you’d have to drink if you burned calories like a hummingbird, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world—allowing us to bring more data, more naturally, into decisions in our schools, our workplaces, and our society.
Author : Roger L. Cooke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1118030249
This new edition brings the fascinating and intriguing history of mathematics to life The Second Edition of this internationally acclaimed text has been thoroughly revised, updated, and reorganized to give readers a fresh perspective on the evolution of mathematics. Written by one of the world's leading experts on the history of mathematics, the book details the key historical developments in the field, providing an understanding and appreciation of how mathematics influences today's science, art, music, literature, and society. In the first edition, each chapter was devoted to a single culture. This Second Edition is organized by subject matter: a general survey of mathematics in many cultures, arithmetic, geometry, algebra, analysis, and mathematical inference. This new organization enables students to focus on one complete topic and, at the same time, compare how different cultures approached each topic. Many new photographs and diagrams have been added to this edition to enhance the presentation. The text is divided into seven parts: The World of Mathematics and the Mathematics of the World, including the origin and prehistory of mathematics, cultural surveys, and women mathematicians Numbers, including counting, calculation, ancient number theory, and numbers and number theory in modern mathematics Color Plates, illustrating the impact of mathematics on civilizations from Egypt to Japan to Mexico to modern Europe Space, including measurement, Euclidean geometry, post-Euclidean geometry, and modern geometrics Algebra, including problems leading to algebra, equations and methods, and modern algebra Analysis, including the calculus, real, and complex analysis Mathematical Inference, including probability and statistics, and logic and set theory As readers progress through the text, they learn about the evolution of each topic, how different cultures devised their own solutions, and how these solutions enabled the cultures to develop and progress. In addition, readers will meet some of the greatest mathematicians of the ages, who helped lay the groundwork for today's science and technology. The book's lively approach makes it appropriate for anyone interested in learning how the field of mathematics came to be what it is today. It can also serve as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate-level courses. An Instructor's Manual presenting detailed solutions to all the problems in the book is available upon request from the Wiley editorial department.
Author : Nick T. Thomopoulos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319268627
This book describes a variety of quantitative methods that are vital to planning and control in the operations of the industrial world, from suppliers to manufacturing plants to distribution centers and to the dealers and stores. The topics include: forecasting, measuring forecast error, determining the order quantity, safety stock, when and how much inventory to replenish, all this for individual items and for a distribution network where the items are housed in multiple locations. Further quantitative methods are: manufacturing control, just-in-time, assembly, statistical process control, distribution network, supply chain management, transportation and reverse logistics. The methods are proven, practical and doable for most applications. The material in Elements of Manufacturing, Distribution and Logistics presents topics that people want and should know in the work place. The presentation is easy to read for students and practitioners. There is little need to delve into difficult mathematical relationships, and numerical examples are presented throughout to guide the reader on applications. Practitioners will be able to apply the methods learned to the systems in their locations, and the typical professional will want the book on their bookshelf for reference. Everyone in professional organizations like APICS, DSI and INFORMS; MBA graduates, people in industry, and students in management science, business and industrial engineering will find this book valuable.
Author : A. D. Y. HENRIQUES
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Kara Vaval Ferrier
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1504367480
.Currently, the average life span of a human being is 75 years, which translates to 28,000 days. My question to you is, What will you do with your 28,000 days? 28,000 Days Make Yours Count! offers its readers practical and tested suggestions on how to rise to their God-given potential and live their best lives. Each chapter offers a view of life through the lens of someone whose tragedies might easily have caused her to see herself as a victim of her circumstances. But, instead, Kara Vaval Ferrier decided to learn the lessons in her experiences and rise above them. An easy read, 28,000 daysMake Yours Count! clearly lays out the approach to life to which Kara credits her success. She shares them with the conviction that, if applied, the principles will undoubtedly produce similar results for the committed reader.
Author : Emily Sper
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545214076
Holiday candles introduce the numbers from one to eight and other Hanukkah terms in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, with English transliterations. On board pages.
Author : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher :
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 17,8 MB
Release : 1904
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