Activiti in Action


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Summary Activiti in Action is a comprehensive tutorial designed to introduce developers to the world of business process modeling using Activiti. Before diving into the nuts and bolts of Activiti, this book presents a solid introduction to BPMN 2.0 from a developer's perspective. About the Technology Activiti streamlines the implemention of your business processes: with Activiti Designer you draw your business process using BPMN. Its XML output goes to the Activiti Engine which then creates the web forms and performs the communications that implement your process. It's as simple as that. Activiti is lightweight, integrates seamlessly with standard frameworks, and includes easy-to-use design and management tools. About the Book Activiti in Action introduces developers to business process modeling with Activiti. You'll start by exploring BPMN 2.0 from a developer's perspective. Then, you'll quickly move to examples that show you how to implement processes with Activiti. You'll dive into key areas of process modeling, including workflow, ESB usage, process monitoring, event handling, business rule engines, and document management integration. Written for business application developers. Familiarity with Java and BPMN is helpful but not required. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Activiti from the ground up Dozens of real-world examples Integrate with standard Java tooling Table of Contents PART 1 INTRODUCING BPMN 2.0 AND ACTIVITI Introducing the Activiti framework BPMN 2.0: what's in it for developers? Introducing the Activiti tool stack Working with the Activiti process engine PART 2 IMPLEMENTING BPMN 2.0 PROCESSES WITH ACTIVITI Implementing a BPMN 2.0 process Applying advanced BPMN 2.0 and extensions Dealing with error handling Deploying and configuring the Activiti Engine Exploring additional Activiti modules PART 3 ENHANCING BPMN 2.0 PROCESSES Implementing advanced workflow Integrating services with a BPMN 2.0 process Ruling the business rule engine Document management using Alfresco Business monitoring and Activiti PART 4 MANAGING BPMN 2.0 PROCESSES? Managing the Activiti Engine




2nd Grade Jumbo Language Arts Success Workbook


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3 BOOKS IN 1! Learning at home is as easy as A B C with this supersized workbook that's jam-packed with 320 pages of kid-friendly, teacher-reviewed activities for kids tackling 2nd grade reading and language arts skills. Perfect for back to school--no matter what that looks like! A strong foundation of language arts skills is essential for 2nd graders working to become successful readers. This workbook (a $39 value for just $18.99!) brings together 3 of Sylvan Learning's most popular curriculum-based activity books, and includes 320 colorful pages all designed to help your child get comfortable with foundational reading concepts like: • consonant blends • silent consonants • hard & soft letter sounds • compounds & contractions • prefixes & suffixes • reading comprehension • long & short vowel spelling • people, family, and animal vocabulary ... and much more! With vibrant, colorful pages full of games and puzzles, 2nd Grade Jumbo Language Arts Success Workbook will help your child catch up, keep up, and get ahead—and best of all, to have lots of fun doing it! *Includes the full text of 2nd Grade Reading Skill Builders, 2nd Grade Spelling Games & Activities, and 2nd Grade Vocabulary Puzzles ***** Why Sylvan Products Work ***** Sylvan Learning Workbooks won a National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Honors Award as a top book series for children in the elementary-aged category. NAPPA is the nation’s most comprehensive awards program for children’s products and parenting resources and has been critically reviewing products since 1990. The Award recognizes Sylvan Learning Workbooks as some of the most innovative and useful products geared to parents. Sylvan's proven system inspires kids to learn and has helped children nationwide catch up, keep up, and get ahead in school. Sylvan has been a trusted partner for parents for thirty years and has based their supplemental education success on programs developed through a focus on the highest educational standards and detailed research. Sylvan’s line of educational products equips families with fun, effective, and grade-appropriate learning tools. Our workbooks and learning kits feature activities, stories, and games to reinforce the skills children need to develop and achieve their academic potential. Students will reap the rewards of improved confidence and a newfound love of learning.




An Early Start for Your Child with Autism


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Presents strategies for helping children with autism interact with others and achieve their potential, covering such areas as back-and-forth interactions, nonverbal communication, and imitation.




The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration


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Make workplace conflict resolution a game that EVERYBODY wins! Recent studies show that typical managers devote more than a quarter of their time to resolving coworker disputes. The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games offers a wealth of activities and exercises for groups of any size that let you manage your business (instead of managing personalities). Part of the acclaimed, bestselling Big Books series, this guide offers step-by-step directions and customizable tools that empower you to heal rifts arising from ineffective communication, cultural/personality clashes, and other specific problem areas—before they affect your organization's bottom line. Let The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games help you to: Build trust Foster morale Improve processes Overcome diversity issues And more Dozens of physical and verbal activities help create a safe environment for teams to explore several common forms of conflict—and their resolution. Inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and proved effective at Fortune 500 corporations and mom-and-pop businesses alike, the exercises in The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games delivers everything you need to make your workplace more efficient, effective, and engaged.




Those Shoes


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But all the kids are wearing them! Any child who has ever craved something out of reach will relate to this warm, refreshingly realistic story. Features an audio read-along. "I have dreams about those shoes. Black high-tops. Two white stripes." All Jeremy wants is a pair of those shoes, the ones everyone at school seems to be wearing. But Jeremy’s grandma tells him they don’t have room for "want," just "need," and what Jeremy needs are new boots for winter. When Jeremy’s shoes fall apart at school, and the guidance counselor gives him a hand-me-down pair, the boy is more determined than ever to have those shoes, even a thrift-shop pair that are much too small. But sore feet aren’t much fun, and Jeremy comes to realize that the things he has -- warm boots, a loving grandma, and the chance to help a friend -- are worth more than the things he wants.




From Head to Toe


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What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? From the creator of such beloved classics as The Grouchy Ladybug and The Mixed-Up Chameleon comes this interactive story that invites kids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend their necks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could be better than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, kids will be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep up with these animals!




Activity Book for Children


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Creative activity books for young children.




Beautiful Oops!


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A life lesson that all parents want their children to learn: It’s OK to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal of discovery. A spill doesn’t ruin a drawing—not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an accidental tear in your paper? Don’t be upset about it when you can turn it into the roaring mouth of an alligator. An award winning, best-selling, one-of-a-kind interactive book, Beautiful Oops! shows young readers how every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope”—each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder.




Activities Management


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Activities Management is a comprehensive guide to running a smooth and successful operation. It includes: * practical help on how to plan and manage work; * health and safety in the workplace; * environmental considerations that today's supervisor needs to know. The Team Leader Development Series is an essential tool towards gaining the Supervisory Management Award. Consisting of four practical and interactive textbooks, this series will be invaluable not only to students, but also as a guide individuals and organisations seeking to improve their business performance at the first level of management. Key learning features: * Learning Objectives to enable the reader to assess the knowledge gained throughout the series. * Activities to put the learning into practice. * Case studies - 'true-life' scenarios! * Workbased Assignments which will also provide evidence for S/NVQ portfolios. * Language is straightforward and direct, contextualised to relate to team leaders and supervisory managers working in a wide range of industry sectors. * Influential protagonists in the field will be alluded to as appropriate to support the learning. Tutor resource material for each title in the series is available either as hard copy or is downloadable from the BH website. Please contact BH marketing on [email protected].