iOpener: Going to School


Book Description

This 1,139-word book tells all about schools from around the world, from Ghana to Russia to Canada to Japan! This text uses examples of children who attend each school and details how long it takes them to get there, how the classroom is structured, and what their schoolwork looks like. This title includes a pronunciation guide and discussion questions to aid in reading comprehension. Grade: 2 Subject: World Cultures Genre: Informational Text Comprehension Skill/Strategy: Compare and Contrast Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA/EDL): 24 Guided Reading Level: L Lexile Level: N/A DK's iOpeners equip K-6 students with the skills and strategies they need to access and comprehend nonfiction so that they are not only learning to read but reading to learn. The combination of high-interest content and eye-popping photography of iOpeners brings science and social studies topics to life, raises student achievement in reading, and boosts standardized test scores.




Happiness at Work


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Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Pryce-Jones exposes the secrets of being happy at work. Focuses on what happiness really means in a work context and why it matters to individuals and organisations in both human and financial terms Equips readers with the information, knowledge and skills to make the most of the nearly 100,000 hours that they'll spend at work over a lifetime Demystifies psychological research through a fascinating array of anecdotes, case studies, and interviews from people in the trenches of the working world, including business world-leaders, politicians, particle physicists, and philosophers, sheep farmers, waitresses, journalists, teachers, and lawyers, to name just a few




The Every Day MBA


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'This is an invaluable guide for any manager looking to apply MBA thinking in the real world. Strongly recommended.' Gordon Seabright, Director of the Eden Project 'Packed with insights, tools, tips, cases and know-how, this easy-to-read book will accelerate your ability to deal with challenging management issues. A must for every manager.' Jessica Pryce-Jones, Joint CEO, iOpener Institute for People and Performance 'This fantastic book ​will help you to challenge the mental barriers of the status quo.' Peter Meier, CEO, Kuoni Travel Holding Ltd Transform your career and revolutionise how you work with the very best learning from the world’s leading business schools. Delivering many of the key benefits of a top-notch business education, without the hefty price tag and big time investment, The Every Day MBA will guide, challenge and inspire you to better results, wherever you are in your career. Use the powerful combination of the best business models with your own experience and awareness to quickly develop the same game-changing thinking, tactical behaviours and dynamic strategies that MBA graduates know really work. Find out what it really takes to be a leader in business and use MBA thinking to take your business knowledge and practice to a brilliant new level – today, tomorrow and every day.




iOpener: What is a Government


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This book for advanced readers covers everything you need to know about what governments do, early governments, types of government today, how governments are chosen, and what your role is. Diagrams, fun fact boxes, and photographs bring the subject to life, while a glossary, an index, and discussion questions aid in reading comprehension. Grade: 5 Subject: World Cultures Genre: Informational Text Comprehension Skill/Strategy: Classify/Organize Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA): 50 Guided Reading Level: V Lexile Level: 950L DK's iOpeners equip K-6 students with the skills and strategies they need to access and comprehend nonfiction so that they are not only learning to read but reading to learn. The combination of high-interest content and eye-popping photography of iOpeners brings science, math and social studies topics to life, raises student achievement in reading, and boosts standardized test scores.




The Art of Getting Stared At


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Sixteen-year-old Sloane is given the biggest opportunity of her life—a chance for a film school scholarship—but she only has less than two weeks to produce a video. She also has to work with Isaac Alexander, an irresponsible charmer with whom she shares an uneasy history. Then comes a horrifying discovery: Sloane finds a bald spot on her head. The pink patch, no bigger than a quarter, shouldn’t be there. Neither should the bald spots that follow. Horror gives way to devastation when Sloane is diagnosed with alopecia areata. The autoimmune disease has no cause, no cure and no definitive outcome. The spots might grow over tomorrow or they might be there for life. She could become completely bald. No one knows. Determined to produce her video and keep her condition secret, Sloane finds herself turning into the kind of person she has always mocked: someone obsessed with their looks. She’s also forced to confront a painful truth: she is as judgmental as anyone else … but she saves the harshest judgments for herself.




iOpener: Skeletons Inside and Out


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This book covers everything you need to know about human and animal skeletons. Diagrams and photographs bring the subject to life, while a glossary, an index, and discussion questions aid in reading comprehension. Grade: 4 Subject: Life Science Genre: Informational Text Comprehension Skill/Strategy: Compare and Contrast Diagnostic Reading Assessment (DRA/EDL): 40 Guided Reading Level: R Lexile Level: 770L DK's iOpeners equip K-6 students with the skills and strategies they need to access and comprehend nonfiction so that they are not only learning to read but reading to learn. The combination of high-interest content and eye-popping photography of iOpeners brings science and social studies topics to life, raises student achievement in reading, and boosts standardized test scores.




Relativity


Book Description

This text brings the challenge and excitement of modern relativity and cosmology at rigorous mathematical level within reach of advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates.




Going to School


Book Description

Schools around the world - Afghanistan - Australia - Canada - Ghana - Japan - Russia - South Africa - United Kingdom - United States.




Seven Disciplines of A Leader


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Recognize, develop, and embody great leadership Seven Disciplines of A Leader is a comprehensive manual for building better leaders. Author and executive coach Jeff Wolf is a respected authority on leadership, and his strategies and inspiration have fostered dramatic growth in some of the nation's top companies. In this book, he shares the secrets of great leadership to help readers align professional development and exemplify these traits themselves. Each of the Disciplines is valuable on its own, but together they add up to more than a sum of their parts, and work synergistically to propel leaders to higher and higher effectiveness and companies to better and better business. From initiative, to planning, to community service, readers will gain deep insight into what separates the good from the great, and how organizations can nurture these qualities in their employees with leadership potential. A good leader gets results, but a great leader inspires every single member of the team to reach their utmost potential every single time. A great leader makes everyone shine, and provides the vision, the tools, and the support people need to do their very best work. This book describes how it's done, and how greatness can be learned. Discover the traits that make leaders great Align leadership development training to maximize potential Foster the right attitudes and behaviors for better outcomes Build a culture of sustainable success that permeates the organization Individual achievement is great, but fostering a culture of achievement sends business into the future on an upward trajectory. It's more than just a single inspired employee; it's about recognizing the signs of potential leadership and nurturing them to fruition throughout the organization. Seven Disciplines of A Leader is the field guide to great leadership.




Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XVI


Book Description

This volume contains the refereed technical papers presented at ES99, the Nineteenth SGES International Conference on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 1999. The papers in this volume present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on knowledge engineering, knowledge discovery, case-based reasoning, learning and knowledge representation and refinement. This is the sixteenth volume in the Research and Development series. The series is essential reading for those who wish to keep up to date with developments in this important field. The Application Stream papers are published as a companion volume under the title Applications and Innovations in Intelligent Systems VII.