Author : Sunie Levin
Publisher : Behrman House Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780807408506
Sunie Levin's thoughtful sensitive book is for every Jewish grandparent trying to create a meaningful relationship with their interfaith grandchildren.
Author : William Bridges
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2004-08-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0738211427
The best-selling guide for coping with changes in life and work, named one of the 50 all-time best books in self-help and personal development Whether you choose it or it is thrust upon you, change brings both opportunities and turmoil. Since Transitions was first published, this supportive guide has helped hundreds of thousands of readers cope with these issues by providing an elegantly simple yet profoundly insightful roadmap of the transition process. With the understanding born of both personal and professional experience, William Bridges takes readers step by step through the three stages of any transition: The Ending, The Neutral Zone, and, eventually, The New Beginning. Bridges explains how each stage can be understood and embraced, leading to meaningful and productive movement into a hopeful future. With a new introduction highlighting how the advice in the book continues to apply and is perhaps even more relevant today, and a new chapter devoted to change in the workplace, Transitions will remain the essential guide for coping with the one constant in life: change.
Author : Robert D. Hoppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2008-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1139441558
Paleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations. However, paleodemographic theory relies on several assumptions that cannot easily be validated by the researcher, and if incorrect, can lead to large errors or biases. In this book, physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers and statisticians tackle these methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is linked to chronological age, assessment of age from the skeleton, demographic models of mortality and their interpretation, and biostatistical approaches to age structure estimation from archaeological samples. This work will be of immense importance to anyone interested in paleodemography, including biological and physical anthropologists, demographers, geographers, evolutionary biologists and statisticians.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309093171
Accelerating the transition of new technologies into systems and products will be crucial to the Department of Defenses development of a lighter, more flexible fighting force. Current long transition times-ten years or more is now typical-are attributed to the complexity of the process. To help meet these challenges, the Department of Defense asked the National Research Council to examine lessons learned from rapid technology applications by integrated design and manufacturing groups. This report presents the results of that study, which was based on a workshop held to explore these successful cases. Three key areas emerged: creating a culture for innovation and rapid technology transition; methodologies and approaches; and enabling tools and databases.
Author : Susan Krumdieck
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1000692213
Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints. These issues pose challenges for organizations, businesses, and communities, and engineers will need to begin developing ideas and projects to implement the transition of engineered systems. This work presents a methodology for shifting away from unsustainable activities. Teaching the Transition Engineering approach and methodology is the focus of the text, and the concept is presented in a way that engineers can begin applying it in their work.
Author : Jan-Peter Voß
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847200265
This book deals with the issue of sustainable development in a novel and innovative way. It examines the governance implications of reflexive modernisation - the condition that societal development is endangered by its own side-effects. With conceptualising reflexive governance the book leads a way out of endless quarrels about the definition of sustainability and into a new mode of collective action.
Author : Colleen A. Thoma
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN :
Timely and useful resource that guides educators in using UDL in their classrooms while helping students transition to adult life.
Author : William Bridges
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0738219665
The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful. Organizational transitions affect people; it is always people, rather than a company, who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change. As veteran business consultant William Bridges explains, transition is successful when employees have a purpose, a plan, and a part to play. This indispensable guide is now updated to reflect the challenges of today's ever-changing, always-on, and globally connected workplaces. Directed at managers on all rungs of the corporate ladder, this expanded edition of the classic bestseller provides practical, step-by-step strategies for minimizing disruptions and navigating uncertain times.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2002-06-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0309084016
Governments have done much to leverage information technology to deploy e-government services, but much work remains before the vision of e-government can be fully realized. Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-government examines the emerging visions for e-government, the technologies required to implement them, and approaches that can be taken to accelerate innovation and the transition of innovative information technologies from the laboratory to operational government systems. In many cases, government can follow the private sector in designing and implementing IT-based services. But there are a number of areas where government requirements differ from those in the commercial world, and in these areas government will need to act on its role as a "demand leader." Although researchers and government agencies may appear to by unlikely allies in this endeavor, both groups have a shared interest in innovation and meeting future needs. E-government innovation will require addressing a broad array of issues, including organization and policy as well as engineering practice and technology research and development, and each of these issues is considered in the book.
Author : Derk Loorbach
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Strategic planning
ISBN : 9789057270574
Acknowledging that states are faced with societal problems too complex for existing approaches, this in-depth guide to transition management suggests combining long-term vision and short-term experiments in a selective participatory process that supports policy integration, social learning, and social innovation. The book covers the principle's first five years of theory and practice in the Netherlands, making it a unique account of an innovative experiment in policy theory and practice that is highly relevant in an international context.
