 | Developing Core Competence Through Multicultural Learning - Rasoava, Rijamampianina 10 Digit ISBN: 1581128746 13 Digit ISBN: 9781581128741 | | Within recent years, managing cultural diversity has become a popular topic within management in general and organizational behavior and human resource management in particular. Indeed, the world is moving into the post-modern era, which calls for a comprehensive, practical, and realistic strategy that would change not only the organizational member's numbers and attitudes, but also the way organizations are managed.The purpose of this book was therefore twofold: 1. To address the real and practical issues and improvement of cultural diversity in management with empirical data and case analysis; 2. To offer a practical and effective strategy of promoting non-dominant cultures and better mixing of management ranks, while ensuring optimal performance and maintaining a skilled workforce, which would be willing and able to continuously learn and develop the firm's core competence.A survey was conducted using a sample of employees from two companies in Madagascar-Kraomita Malagasy (KRAOMA) and STAR-Madagascar (STAR), both limited liability companies. Having tested the twenty-eight hypotheses on the effects of cultural diversity, the conditions for an effective multicultural management, and the linkage between core competence and performance, the results revealed that: 1. Cultural distances influence management; 2. Sharing principle is one of the keys to multicultural learning and core competence development, thus, to post-modern organizations' success; 3. Cultural and functional interfac are essential to ease and to smooth the successful adoption of a best practice approach.As recognition of importance of dynamic core competence will grow, scholars and practitionersemphasize on the ways in which each organizational member's core competence is shared, developed, and appropriated by the group/unit/organization for creating new core competence. |
 | Developing Countries and the Wto: A Pro-Activ - Bernard , Hoekman 10 Digit ISBN: 0631225315 13 Digit ISBN: 9780631225317 | | This volume brings together a selection of papers that were prepared as background analyses for a collaborative research capacity-building project, focusing on the WTO negotiating agenda. * Contributors review the results of the Uruguay Round negotiations, discuss developing country concerns relating to the operation of the WTO and assess implementation of WTO agreements. * Contributors quantify the potential benefits of further global liberalization of access to markets for industrial and agricultural products, and assess the relative merits of expanding multilateral disciplines into new areas such as investment, competition, and labor and environmental policies. |
 | Developing Critical Reading Skills - Deanne Milan , Spears 10 Digit ISBN: 007298290X 13 Digit ISBN: 9780072982909 | | Designed for reading courses at the intermediate and advanced level, "Developing Critical Reading Skills" uses practice prose similar to the kind that students will encounter in the classroom, encouraging them to analyze, interpret, question, and even challenge the words of the writer. The seventh edition continues to feature a wide range of interesting and diverse selections, excellent coverage of critical reading skills, and a concluding section on reading short stories. It now also includes coverage of reading textbooks and interpreting visuals.. |
 | Developing Customer Service Targets by Assessing Customer Perspectives: - E., Rambo 10 Digit ISBN: 1843398834 13 Digit ISBN: 9781843398837 | | The objective of the research was to develop customer-driven customer service performance targets and measures for drinking water utilities by assessing customer perspectives and soliciting customer input. Customer satisfaction research often produces findings that are superficial or unhelpful. Satisfaction surveys that estimate only current satisfaction, and that define the areas of satisfaction broadly rather than narrowly and in terms of specific experiences, do not produce information that utility managers can directly act upon. What is needed is information about the rate of satisfaction change as service rises and falls, and the cost of increasing and decreasing service. Qualitative and quantitative research was conducted with customers of four participating utilities to better understand how customers' perceive service, the attributes of service that are important to them, and the service levels they expect from their utility. Data were collected on current satisfaction with more than 20 attributes of service, as well as on the satisfaction customers would expect to receive if alternative levels of service were provided. The utility also undertook a cost exercise to help identify the costs of delivering the attributes of service at levels that are higher and lower than the current level. A linear programming approach was used to identify optimal service levels for each attribute of service. Focus group research indicates that customers view customer service in a positive way when it makes the needs of the customer paramount. Courtesy, friendliness, and "being listened to" are part of this attention. Customers hold management responsible for the treatment they get from employeesand perceive that good service reflects strong management. Although the taste of water is a source of complaint, this does not always translate into criticism of the utility. Many people accept their water's taste, do not see it as the utility's fault, and do not equate it with being unsafe to drink. Quantitative survey research indicates that overall satisfaction with partner water utilities is relatively high, averaging 80 out of 100 points over all samples. Profiles of customer satisfaction with different levels of service are remarkably consistent across participating utilities and a national sample, suggesting a common performance standard nationwide. Optimization modeling indicates that partner utilities could improve customer satisfaction by 1% to 17% at current costs by shifting their investments in customer service. Each partner utility has a unique configuration of recommended changes. In general, the model shows that customer communication costs and representative training costs leading to more effective interpersonal relations have the most impact per dollar invested. |
 | Developing Dispositions - Examining Mentors and Beginning Teachers - Lisa, Johnson 10 Digit ISBN: 3836428741 13 Digit ISBN: 9783836428743 | | Teachers today are faced with a myriad of responsibilities from student achievement to developing socially responsible citizens. Schools of education work on promoting teacher knowledge and skill however little has been done to advance the necessary dispositions needed to meet the diverse needs of students. Perhaps this is because few schools have been able to define what "disposition" is much less promote and evaluate the impact of disposition on teacher development or student learning. This study, conducted in collaboration with world renowned scholar Dr. Alan J. Reiman, examines professional judgment and action as key components of teacher disposition. Specifically, it addresses how mentor disposition impacts work with beginning teachers and how beginning teacher disposition impacts work with students. The book is geared toward teacher educators, those engaged in professional development, and educational researchers interested in the area of teacher disposition. It provides a concrete, measurable definition of disposition including rubrics for evaluation and explores professional development programs that can be replicated in various environments. |
 | Developing Early Years Practice - Linda, Miller 10 Digit ISBN: 1843123177 13 Digit ISBN: 9781843123170 | | This book provides readers working in a diverse range of early years settings with the underpinning knowledge required to increase their effectiveness in working with young children. It will explore a wide range of issues including: the roles and responsibilities of practitioners; developing reflective practice; how children learn and develop; early years curriculum; working with parents and professionals and developing inclusive environments.- Appropriate for all SureStart Unit Recognized Awards- Helps students meet the learning outcomes of the "Statement of Requirement"- Covers the birth to eight age range- Includes Practical work-related activities and issues for reflectionCombining an understanding of the relationship between practical workplace issues and relevant academic knowledge, this is a core textbook for all Foundation Degree students working in early years education and care. It is also highly relevant for studentsfollowing an Early Childhood Studies degree or B.Ed/PGCE Early Years course. |
 | Developing Effective Research Proposals - Keith F., Punch 10 Digit ISBN: 0761963553 13 Digit ISBN: 9780761963554 | | A well-constructed research plan is vital to the successful execution of any research project. This book shows how to design and prepare research proposal and present it effectively to a university review committee, funding body, or commercial client. The book is organized around three central themes: What are research proposals; who reads them and why?; what general guidelines and strategies can help students develop a proposal; and what might a finished proposal look like? The book will be invaluable across all areas of social science, both basic and applied, and for students undertaking quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method studies. Developing Effective Research Proposals can be used as a workbook to Keith Punch's bestselling text An Introduction to Social Research (Sage, 1998) or as an independent guide. |
 | Developing Effective School Management - Jack, Dunham 10 Digit ISBN: 0415104297 13 Digit ISBN: 9780415104296 | | There is increasing recognition of the need for training in specific management skills for professionals taking on the complex responsibilities of middle management in schools. This, however, is an area in which there has tended to be a training gap. In this book, Jack Dunham helps teachers to identify and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to manage teams effectively in primary or secondary schools. He does this by focusing on four major areas: staff management, management skills, professional development and change, and stress management. This book will be invaluable to all those seeking or already acting in the crucial middle management role in schools. |
 | Developing Electronic Supply Chain Portals - Kameshwar V., Eranki 10 Digit ISBN: 0672319578 13 Digit ISBN: 9780672319570 | | Developing Electronic Supply Chain Portals covers all electronic supply chain management application areas including data warehousing and mining, OLAP, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). It also shows readers how to use different software tools in developing web enabled eSCM solutions. Having read this book, developers or engineers will be able to design, develop, deploy and maintain custom internet/intranet enabled supply chain web portals. The book provides a comprehensive discussion on tuning Oracle relational databases as well as a section devoted to benchmarking web and application servers. Part 1 offers a unified overview of eSCM, ERP, and electronic commerce portals (ECP). Part 2 provides hands on database configuration, tuning and benchmarking, and Part 3 discusses commercially available ESC solutions such as: -- RHYTHM-- SQRIBE-- Brio Information Portals-- Selectica -- Internet Selling System (ISS)-- Oracle SC applications-- SAS web solutions-- WebMethods -- B2B Solutions. |
 | Developing Employees - Hbsp , 10 Digit ISBN: 1422128857 13 Digit ISBN: 9781422128855 | | The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness. |
 | Developing Exemplary Educational Leaders - Shelley, Magnusson 10 Digit ISBN: 3836488493 13 Digit ISBN: 9783836488495 | | The role of the school administrator has dramatically changed over the last few years and has become more complex and much more important. As education systems struggle with changes to curriculum and pedagogy, school administrators are often bogged down with the minutia of their daily work. At the same time as they are overloaded with detail work, they are expected to be innovative change agents for their students and their staff. As the baby boom generation moves through the work force, more and more experienced school administrators are reaching retirement age. Many new administrators are thrust into the role of educational leadership with little or no preparation. While many school districts offer training in administration, few offer the type of true leadership training administrators need. This work looks at the experience of one school district in Alberta as it struggles to come to grips with the dynamics of educational leadership and what is needed to develop the exceptional leaders that will lead our schools in the 21st century. |
 | Developing Expertise in Critical Care Nursing - Julie , Scholes 10 Digit ISBN: 140511715X 13 Digit ISBN: 9781405117159 | | Developing Expertise in Critical Care Nursing examines the development of professional expertise in critical care nursing, based on extensive research in clinical practice. It offers a repertoire of learning and assessment methods that enable practitioners to grow their own expertise and foster developments in others. Developing Expertise in Critical Care Nursing will be of interest to practitioners who aspire to advanced level practice in critical care and to all who facilitate this process. It debates the characteristics of expert practice and practice development and examines the acquisition of core skills, and career development in critical care using a role transition model. |
 | Developing Faculty to Use Technology: Programs and Strategies to Enhance Teaching - David G., Brown 10 Digit ISBN: 1882982622 13 Digit ISBN: 9781882982622 | | Developing faculty to use technology is a continuing art. This book chronicles how a wide range of universities successfully implemented faculty development programs to help faculty better use technology in their teaching. It offers an abundance of practical, proven information on how to integrate technology into teaching and learning activities. Readers interested in implementing or improving their own faculty development program will be guided by detailed descriptions of successful faculty development programs, their effectiveness, lessons learned, and possible variations of the programs that may be useful in other settings. Featured topics include The ethics of teaching in an online environment Communication across institutional boundaries Tips on communicating effectively with faculty Supporting faculty in the use of technology Creating a faculty instructional technology support facility Learning spaces Funding instructional technologies projects An agenda for a successful faculty workshop Using assessment to improve teacher education Measuring the impact of technology-based teaching on learning Written for the architects of faculty development programs--directors of teaching and learning centers, chief information officers, information technology personnel, department chairs, deans, provosts, pedagogical consultants and course designers, members of faculty committees, and individual faculty members--this book will help readers become better able to craft a customized faculty development program that will enhance faculty potential to use technology in the classroom. |
 | Developing Financial Intelligence: Taking the Assets You Already Have, and Making Them Financially Efficient - R. Brook, Hansen 10 Digit ISBN: 142592350X 13 Digit ISBN: 9781425923501 | | Developing Financial Intelligence Will teach you and your family: q How to implement modern portfolio theory q Build effective wills and trusts for your family q Create or expand your business model How to create an effective financial plan: -Utilizing the assets you already have -Creating Effective Income Plans -Offensive and Defensive Tax Reduction -Transforming Income into Wealth -Minimizing Estate Taxes "The kind of straight forward no fluff education you would expect of Creative Wealth Strategies" Paul Maxa President & CEO, Workman Securities "Brook teaches the same way he practices his craft Get ready for significant input" Tony Brozek President & CEO United Windows and Siding" Brook brings together a series of tools that everyone can use but very few have access to" Paul Wax President & CEO, Kinetic Solutions |
 | Developing Focus Group Research - Jenny, Kitzinger 10 Digit ISBN: 0761955682 13 Digit ISBN: 9780761955689 | | This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work. The contributors, an impressive group of experienced researchers from a range of disciplines and traditions, discuss different ways of designing, conducting and analyzing focus group research. They examine sampling strategies; the implications of combining focus groups with other methods; accessing views of minority' groups; their contribution to participatory or feminist research; use of software packages; discourse analysis; and the epistemological and political underpinnings of research. |
 | Developing Games That Learn - Len, Dorfman 10 Digit ISBN: 1884777155 13 Digit ISBN: 9781884777158 | | If you've ever wondered how to empower your software with the ability to learn from experience, this book is for you. Developing Games That Learn shows in detail how to implement single-trial learning, illustrating its approach in board games Tic Tac Toe and a more complex game called Drop Four. The authors discuss the learning algorithms and present the source code that implements them.The program learning techniques are presented in sufficient detail to be useful for practical software design. They are particularly suited to computer game development, but can also be used in other areas.This book provides valuable guidance for programmers, project leaders, and game designers.Existing approaches to program learning are often of the "dumb" type -- the program simply learns not to repeat any sequence that led to failure. Authors Dorfman and Ghosh take a more powerful path: for each example of failure, their method first finds the point of no return -- the point after which the game was certain to be lost. Then that point is prevented from being reached via any of a number of different (but equivalent) paths, not just the single path actually played, thus accelerating the learning.If you are interested in using these techniques in applications other than games, the authors discuss to do that. |
 | Developing Global Business Leaders: Policies, Processes, and Innovations - Mark E. , Mendenhall 10 Digit ISBN: 1567203140 13 Digit ISBN: 9781567203141 | | The widening gap between the requirements of multinational organizations and the strategic and managerial abilities of their leaders, many of whose core experiences predated the globalization of business, has created the need for this book. Editors Mark E. Mendenhall, Torsten M. Kuhlmann, and Gunter K. Stahl have organized the results of their research--and that of their colleagues in the fields of leadership development, international management, and organizational psychology--for the benefit of scholars and practitioners alike. After surveying current practices to bring the reader up to speed on global leadership development as pursued by the United States, Germany, Japan, and with regard to women in leadership positions, the book's focus shifts to a discussion of effective organizational processes. In the third and final section, contributors analyze the research that has been done on extending human resource management functional practices--such as selection instrumentation, the use of assessment centers, multinational work groups, cross-cultural training programs, and repatriation policies--to global leadership development. The editors define and analyze global leadership and, in their review of the research, clarify exactly what we know and don't know about developing global leadership skills and what it might be profitable to learn. Practitioners will benefit from the contributors well-grounded insights into such issues as the key distinctions between global and domestic corporations, which dimensions of competency transcend internal corporate leadership dimensions, and how global leadership competencies should be developed. |
 | Developing Grounded Theory - Janice M., Morse 10 Digit ISBN: 1598741926 13 Digit ISBN: 9781598741926 | | Grounded theory is the most popular genre of qualitative research used in the health professions and is widely used elsewhere in the research world. In this volume, six key grounded theory methodologists examine the history, principles, and practices of this method, highlighting areas in which different strands of the methods diverge. Chapters cover the work of Anselm Strauss, Barney Glaser, Leonard Schatzman, and the postmodern and constructivist schools. Dialogues between the participants sharpen the debate and show key topics of agreement and disagreement. This volume will be ideal for courses on grounded theory that wish to show the ways in which it can be used in research studies |
 | Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation - Janice M. , Morse 10 Digit ISBN: 1598741934 13 Digit ISBN: 9781598741933 | | Grounded theory is the most popular genre of qualitative research used in the health professions and is widely used elsewhere in the research world. In this volume, six key grounded theory methodologists examine the history, principles, and practices of this method, highlighting areas in which different strands of the methods diverge. Chapters cover the work of Anselm Strauss, Barney Glaser, Leonard Schatzman, and the postmodern and constructivist schools. Dialogues between the participants sharpen the debate and show key topics of agreement and disagreement. This volume will be ideal for courses on grounded theory that wish to show the ways in which it can be used in research studies. |
 | Developing High Performance People: The Art of Coaching - Oscar, Mink 10 Digit ISBN: 0201563134 13 Digit ISBN: 9780201563139 | | In today's economy corporations are emphasizing performance improvement over increasing head count. Self-managed work teams, empowerment of employees, and organizational learning all present different challenges for today's manager. How do managers succeed in this environment? A new set of managerial skills is necessary. "Developing High-Performance People" is the only book to address this changing role of the manger."Developing High-Performance People" should be read by all supervisors and managers; human resources managers; trainers who conduct coaching/counseling courses; and professors in management, human resources, or career counseling--everyone who wants to learn how to build trust and involvement with employees and how to effectively evaluate employee performance. create a high performance environment help workers to deal with barriers to top performance analyze their own level of competency as a coach personalize a performance plan for each employee develop a practical action plan for employee training and development |
 | Developing Inclusive Practice - Elizabeth, Cowne 10 Digit ISBN: 1853468533 13 Digit ISBN: 9781853468537 | | Aimed at all those wishing to develop inclusive practice, this book introduces a theoretical framework for managing an inclusive approach to developing SEN practice within primary and secondary schools, together with some early years examples. Throughout the emphasis is on how to make inclusive practice work in school settings. It includes strategies to overcome common problems; examples of successful projects; case studies illustrating points made; INSET activities for training purposes; and discussion points at the end of each chapter. SENCOs and those training SENCOs should find this book particularly helpful. Members of senior management teams and anyone interested in developing inclusive practice will find it equally relevant to their needs. |
 | Developing Institutional Options for Watershed Management - The Sixaola Binational Watershed and - Paul, Babladelis 10 Digit ISBN: 3836463121 13 Digit ISBN: 9783836463126 | | Preservation and conservation activities are often costly and frequently do not yield economic benefits for those living closest to the land. Even in cases where conservation and preservation have been theoretically linked to sustainable development it has been difficult to implement this concept on the ground. This book examines current efforts in Costa Rica and Panama to stimulate economic and social development while integrating management and protection of natural ecosystems across national boundaries. An institutional impact analysis is performed to examine likely outcomes of current programs, (1) based at the level of the watershed, and (2) with the addition of a macro-institutional structure; a UN sanctioned transboundary biosphere reserve. A theoretical model for this reserve is presented based upon current UN guidelines, a literature review, and case studies. This book presents planners and citizens with a way to evaluate likely outcomes of natural resource management programs. It is relevant for professionals in resource management, land resource economics, and anyone with an interest in linking preservation, conservation, and sustainable development. |
 | Developing Jazz Technique for Clarinet with CD (Audio) - John, O'Neill 10 Digit ISBN: 1902455614 13 Digit ISBN: 9781902455617 | | Following on from the best-selling Jazz Method for Clarinet (49003197), "Developing Jazz Technique for Clarinet" will help the intermediate player take their jazz skills to a new level. The pieces are written in a variety of styles, including blues, swing, New Orleans, ragtime, jazz waltz, bossa nova, samba, salsa, calypso, reggae and South African. Particular emphasis is given to helping the student improvise over chord sequences. The accompaniment CD includes a rhythm section. |
 | Developing Leaders Within Family Businesses - From Followers to Leaders - John James, Cater III 10 Digit ISBN: 3836429438 13 Digit ISBN: 9783836429436 | | Family business studies can benefit from research attention focused on successors. Researchers have proposed that founder leadership has an overshadowing affect on subsequent generations in the family business and is central to the formation of organizational culture. However, in the case of the succeeding generation, there is a lack of research or even speculation concerning the style of leadership employed by the successor. The issue of successor leadership is complex because this individual may not have the same motivation for entering the business as the founder before him. I propose that this individual enters the family business to sustain the firm or perhaps to grow the firm, more as a manager than as an entrepreneur. This study makes two contributions to the family business literature. First, it explicitly incorporates leadership theory more fully into the context of family business. Second, it fills a gap that exists in the family business literature created by a focus on the leadership style of the founder to the exclusion of the leadership style of subsequent generations. This book is directed toward family business researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders. |
 | Developing Library and Information Center Collections - G. Edward, Evans 10 Digit ISBN: 1417692871 13 Digit ISBN: 9781417692873 | | This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development--from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies and, in some cases, completely rewritten. A new addition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site () is maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up-to-date. |
 | Developing Library and Information Center Collections with CDROM - G. Edward , Evans 10 Digit ISBN: 1591582180 13 Digit ISBN: 9781591582182 | | This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development--from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice), to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies. To this end, some chapters--electronic materials, government information, audiovisual materials, and resource sharing--have been almost completely rewritten. In addition, electronic serials, introduced in the 4th edition, has been combined with its print counterpart in a single chapter. New to this edition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site () will also be maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up to date. As the authors put it in their introductory chapter, "whatever environment one works in, collection development is an exciting challenge that requires lifelong learning." Students and practitioners alike will benefit greatly from this state-of-the-art text. |
 | Developing Library and Information Center Collections with CDROM - G. Edward , Evans 10 Digit ISBN: 1591582199 13 Digit ISBN: 9781591582199 | | This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development--from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorhip and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies. To this end, some chapters--electronic materials, government information, audiovisual materials, and resource sharing--have been almost completely rewritten. In addition, electronic serials, introduced in the 4th edition, has been combined with its print counterpart into a single chapter. New to this edition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site () is maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up-to-date. As the authors put it in their introductory chapter, "whatever environment one works in, collection development is an exciting challenge that requires lifelong learning." Students and practicioners alike will benefit greatly from this state-of-the-art text. |
 | Developing Mental Power - George Malcolm, Stratton 10 Digit ISBN: 1430470208 13 Digit ISBN: 9781430470205 | | This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. |
 | Developing Microsoft .Net Controls with Microsoft Visual Basic .Net - John, Connell 10 Digit ISBN: 0735619247 13 Digit ISBN: 9780735619241 | | When users click on a menu item or a button in a dialog box, they're using a control-and every interaction with a control can shape their overall experience and satisfaction with your software. This hands-on guide teaches you how to use or modify the built-in, intrinsic controls provided by the Microsoft .NET Framework for your own applications-as well as how to build new controls from scratch-to deliver the most appropriate and efficient functionality for your audience. The author uses code samples built with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 to illustrate how controls operate and how to add and arrange them on a Windows Form or Microsoft ASP.NET Web Form. You'll learn how to manipulate controls for specific needs, as well as how to write your own custom controls to create the richest user experience. All the book's code is available online for reuse in your own applications. |
 | Developing Microsoft ASP.Net Server Controls and Components - Nikhil, Kothari 10 Digit ISBN: 0735615829 13 Digit ISBN: 9780735615823 | | Here's the essential book for developers who want to learn how to author controls for ASP.NET applications. Combining conceptual details with practical how-to information, this guide provides the solid understanding developers need to get controls up and running. Topics include Web services, HTTP runtime programming, packaging, deployment, debugging, and more. Written by Microsoft insiders who really understand the technology, this is an indispensable tool for professionals creating dynamic web sites and web-enabled applications. |
 | Developing Minds: Challenge and Continuity Across the Lifespan - Michael J., Rutter 10 Digit ISBN: 0465010377 13 Digit ISBN: 9780465010370 | | Most models of human development end abruptly with adolescence. But, according to the internationally renowned theorist and researcher Michael Rutter, we continue to mature throughout our life span. In this volume, Michael Rutter and Marjorie Rutter chart out in nontechnical language a comprehensive and vivid map of human growth from cradle to grave.Arguing that there are discontinuities as well as continuities to the growth process, they trace how basic aspects of psychological functioning (such as emotion and cognition) change over the course of life. The volume is organized around themes--anger and aggression, social relationships, intelligence and language--rather than specific age periods. Thus we see the parallels between life crises and challenges at different times of life (such as adolescence and old age). This original approach also reveals the full significance of both resilient and maladaptive responses to stress and adversity.The authors thoroughly mine decades of developmental research to transmute findings into brilliant nuggets of clinical wisdom. Covering all factors--genetic, social, historical, cognitive, biological--that shape human development, this pioneering book explores and explains not only the universal aspects of maturation but also how we each end up on our individual paths. |
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