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What publishing experts have to say: "You can die with the book inside you or you can discover how to leave your legacy with Get Between the Covers. Many people in the world need to know what you've learned and experienced." -Dan Poynter, author of The Self-Publishing Manual, http: //ParaPublishing.com "Shulman and Spencer have put together an incredible book...it's a must read if you feel that you have 'a book in you' and would like to write it in your lifetime." -Rick Frishman, President of Planned TV Arts, co-author AUTHOR 101 book series, WWW.AUTHOR101.COM "Get Between the Covers is chock-full of sound advice from all the notables in the field, plus inspiring success stories. It's concise. Readable. Motivational. Every aspiring author needs this book! What an impressive contribution to the existing body of literature on book writing and publishing." -Marilyn Ross, co-author of The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Companion, Jump Start Your Book Sales, and founder of SelfPublishingResources.com From the Authors: Get Between the Covers is a user-friendly and motivational tool designed to inspire the masses to write at least one book in their lifetime. Unlike others, we believe that everyone CAN write their own book, and the book takes you through the process from day 1 all the way to your publication options and even what to do once the book is out...with plenty of author success stories (coming from authors of all levels of readership), anecdotes, and humor along the way. It is completely updated for 2007 and builds on the groundwork of the 100+ books that have been written in this market over the past 20 years by packaging it into aninteresting read that is highly informative and concise for the millions who would like to write a book.




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Productivity in Higher Education


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How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.




The Practical Guide to Transforming Your Company


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The Practical Guide to Transforming Your Company is a concise handbook for conducting business transformations—defining and implementing a redirection in the company’s core business or in its strategic positioning. Starting where such programs as LEAN and Six Sigma leave off, the text offers a well-proven methodology for conducting a comprehensive transformation (not a process-by-process efficiency enhancement). The book provides dozens of forms, figures, templates, and checklists the authors have developed through personal experience leading successful corporate efforts. In a sequence paralleling the process of transformation, individual chapters are devoted to the roles and responsibilities of the company leadership, the workforce, and the board of directors. Principles are reinforced by illuminating key success factors by examining government and commercial projects from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Written by two individuals with proven track records, this book is sure to produce success in any transformation endeavor.




PAVING THE ROAD TO PERFORMANCE: THE FIVE Ps


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The five Ps - people, process, planning, prioritization, and participation - are the keys to making a public agency responsive and reliable. The author explains the necessary guidelines for creating a new paradigm for public agencies to deliver more efficient service, and describes how each of the five Ps work together and harmonize to achieve this goal.




Raising Great Kids in a Chaotic World


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Raising Great Kids in a Chaotic World: A Handbook of Strategies, Examples, and Suggestions for Educators and Parentsis a practical resource of tips that parents and educators can use to help kids acquire, practice and/or correct behaviors that are needed to become responsible and successful adults. It offers a broad range of strategies that emphasize: how to teach and model the values and attitudes of success how to talk effectively so kids will listen how to anticipate possible consequences before acting how to equip children and teenagers with skills they can use if they feel anxious, overwhelmed, bullied, or faced with difficult challenges




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Get Up and Try Again


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There are many ways to deal with the disappointments that people face from day to day. The giving-up stage is the easy part. The determination to succeed is the hard and sometimes scary part but will be worth the fight. Some people choose to shut down, give up, and hide themselves from others. From the beginning of time, people have been conditioned to keep going with the promise and reassurance of something better to come, thereby realizing that if you give up, you will never know what could have been. Therefore, getting up and trying to find a solution instead of accepting defeat at the benefit of others will make the rise from the fall worthwhile. Therefore, no matter how small or great the problem, a resolution must be acquired that you can live with and makes you happy. This book depicts the life of one person who, when all the odds seemed against her, dug down and fought harder to gain and contain her status by renewing her strength and keeping her faith in God. This books describes how every time she was knocked down, she picked herself up, brushed off the dirt, and persevered until she made her situation work for her. People will try to discourage someone from reaching a goal they have set for themselves. The worst of that is that they lose out on what they could have accomplished. But those people who were waiting for you to fail laugh will carry on to the next stage. The best way to deal with trials and tribulations is to know that they are to test you, not degrade you. They are to prepare you for what’s to come with a reward that is far greater than you would or could ever imagine.




The Value Flywheel Effect


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It's no secret that technology is moving faster than ever, but current business/IT strategies are not working. To survive the next wave of transformation, the relationship between businesses and technology must evolve. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson enables leaders to create an adaptive organization built upon embracing strategic thinking, team focus, and reduced time to value to drive business results. The Value Flywheel Effect is a technique already being used by next-generation leaders and companies to succeed in the modern competitive landscape. Combining the power derived from the Value Flywheel and the situational clarity provided by Wardley Mapping, organizations are able to sense and respond to change, easily navigating the rough waves ahead, including migrating to the cloud and serverless. Every company that uses technology must act differently from the companies of yesterday. In The Value Flywheel Effect, David Anderson shows organizations how to understand and utilize the socio-technical intersection between business, technology, and people, giving your organization the edge, it needs to navigate future challenges and build maximum situational awareness.




The Effects Of Receiving Country Policies On Migration Flows


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This book deals with migrant-sending countries in the Western Hemisphere because that was the Commission's mandate and because the bulk of undocumented immigrants into the United States come from Mexico and other countries of the Caribbean Basin.