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Principles of Accounting, with Annual Report, General Ledger Software Data Disk
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This text helps students hit the road with a practical set of tools, and the confidence they need to use those tools effectively in making business decisions. The goal is to introduce a new Principles of Accounting text that better reflects a more conceptual and decision-making approach to the material.
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Building on nearly eighty years of scientific work, The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence is the first definitive resource that brings together a stellar panel of academics, researchers, and practitioners, in the field. Sweeping in scope, the text presents information on the most important conceptual models, reviews and evaluates the most valid and reliable methods for assessing emotional intelligence, and offers specific guidelines for applying the principles of Emotional Intelligence in a variety of settings.
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This is an excellent book. It provides 'state of the art and science' information about past and emerging work in emotioanl intelligence and competencies. I highly recommend it.
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The Handbook of Emotional Intelligence is a must read for anyone who is serious about emotional intelligence. Through this book, Bar-On and Parker have brought together a world-class collection of academics, psychologists and researchers. Before the Handbook was written, researchers and practitioners who wanted to get to the bottom of emotional intelligence needed to look up thousands of sources to even start their research. Bar-On and Parker have completed a sterling effort - the chapters include hundreds of research studies and the links are made between many different strands of research on intelligence and emotion and they are brought together in a 'tome' of useful information. This book is not a light piece of bedtime reading. It is a text book which should be on the shelf of anyone who wants to hear direct from the key researchers who have helped to create the field of Emotional Intelligence, so well popularised by Daniel Goleman in his book 'Emotional Intelligence'.
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This is the essential resource for a summary evaluation of research and emerging measures for emotional intelligence. Anyone with an interest in this fundamental human capacity should consult this book.
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Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace: A Handbook for Organizations and Clinicians
Jeffrey P. Kahn , and
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The California School of Organizational Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory, Skills, and Techniques
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Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace is a comprehensive and practical guide to identifying, understanding, preventing, and resolving individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace. Originally published as Mental Health in the Workplace (Van Nostrand/Wiley, 1993), this completely revised, updated, and expanded edition represents the most current thinking in the field and contains contributions from an expert panel of organizational and occupational psychiatrists. With fifty percent more chapters, this new edition adds essential material on creating systems and cultures that encourage organizational productivity and employee mental health and on finding cost-effective,quality mental health care. The book focuses on problems that start "at the top" (executive dysfunction) as well as on the effects of organizational structure, office politics, chronic change, downsizing and employment uncertainty, office wide emotional crises, and aspects of organizational development. In addition, this helpful resource includes information about such basic issues as anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and psychosis.
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Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace: A Handbook for Organizations and Clinicians
by Jeffrey P. Kahn, Alan M. Langlieb (Jossey-Bass) Efficiency and employee well-being are more important than ever to the overall success of organizations. Emotions are key to understanding executive effectiveness, organizational change, and corporate ethics. Stress, burnout, depression, drug abuse, violence, and other mental health problems are costing businesses billions of dollars every year in lost productivity and costs of ineffective treatment.
Mental Health and Productivity in the Workplace is a comprehensive and practical guide to identifying, understanding, preventing, and resolving individual and organizational mental health problems in the workplace. Originally published as Mental Health in the Workplace (Van Nostrand/ Wiley, 1993), this completely revised, updated, and expanded edition represents the most current thinking in the field and contains contributions from an expert panel of organizational and occupational psychiatrists. With 50 percent more chapters, this new edition adds essential material on creating systems and cultures that encourage organizational productivity and employee mental health and on finding cost-effective, quality mental health care. The book focuses on problems that start "at the top" (executive dysfunction), as well as on the effects of organizational structure, office politics, chronic change, downsizing and employment uncertainty, officewide emotional crises, and aspects of organizational development. In addition, this helpful resource includes information about such basic issues as anxiety, stress, burnout, depression, drug and alcohol abuse, violence, and psychosis.
Written for executive management, human resource, benefits, occupational medicine, and mental health professionals, this essential handbook offers an emotionally informed guide to cost-effective implementation of policies for maximum productivity.
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Organizations need to contend with issues related to disruptive psychopathological behavior that in years past may have been swept under the rug. Also, clinicians are more aware that their clients' mental health concerns are influenced by the workplace and that treatment without regard to what happens at work is not apt to be successful.
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Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace explores how psychological disorders impact the ability to work and recommends treatments and their likely side effects. It is designed to give the mental health clinician, I/O psychologist, and human resources manager the information they need to determine the employee's fitness for work and what, if any, accommodations may be needed.
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Presents the current research on job stress and its effects on mental health, the effects of work-family conflicts, women’s health issues, and organizational interventions for reducing stress and conflict.
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Provides detailed descriptions of the most common forms of psychopathology that may affect the workplace.
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Explores behavior that may not relate to standard diagnostic categories but has clear mental health implications. This includes anger and violence, poor social skills, the effects of abuse, exposure to traumatic events, passive-aggressive behavior, and grieving.
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Title: Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace.
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The Psychology of Law and Workplace Violence: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals and Employers.(Reviews)(Book Review): An article from: Security Management
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This is the first scholarly reference work to cover all the major scientific themes and facets of the subject of seeds. It outlines the latest fundamental biological knowledge about seeds, together with the principles of agricultural seed processing, storage and sowing, the food and industrial
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This Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science is the first-ever single-source reference work to inclusively cover classic and modern studies in plant biology in conjunction with research, applications, and innovations in crop science and agriculture. From the fundamentals of plant growth and reproduction to developments in agronomy and agricultural science, the Encyclopedia's authoritative content nurtures communication between these academically distinct yet intrinsically related fields-offering a spread of clear, descriptive, and concise entries to optimally serve scientists, agriculturalists, policy makers, students, and the general public.
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Food, clothing, shelter, healing, decoration---through the cultivation of plants, himankind has thrived and civilizations have flourished for thousands of years. Now, this unique new reference work tells the story, plant by plant, of the ongoing connection between human culture and the plant kingdom.
The Cultural History of Plants provides details on over 800 plant species in 21 thematic chapters. Coverage emcompasses plants cultivated for virtually every purpose, from the manufacture of textiles, perfume, and drugs, to those used for food and ornament.
After an opening section on the earliets use and cultivation of plants, the book's thematic chapters cover the world's economically and culturally important plants.
Written by some of the world's leading ethnobotanists, these chapters begin with a useful one-page overview of its subject followed by concise A-Z entries, and conclude with a generous bibliography pointing out sources for further research. In addition to listing the common names for each plant, each entry also provides the Latin name and names used in Britain and the United States. Concluding chapters give up-to-date information on industrial agriculture, invasive plants, conservation of wild plant biodiversity and endangered species, and conservation of crop genetic resources.
This unique reference is a valuable aid for ethnobotanists and horticultural enthusiasts, archaeologists and social historians, and anyone concerned with the relationship between people and plants.
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Recensione Cultural History of Plants (in Italiano).......2007-09-08
l titolo di questo volume purtroppo mette fuori strada. Si sarebbe portati a pensare di trovare una piccola miniera di informazioni sulla storia delle piante, sugli usi che attorno a loro si sono sviluppati, di storie, miti e curiosità picole e grandi. L'opera è estremamente interessante e di grande pregio scientifico, ma purtroppo è poco "sugosa", proprio dal punto di vista storico e culturale. Si tratta infatti di un volume piuttosto poco incline all'aneddotica, ma anzi rigorosamente scientifico, che divide le piante per categorie (noci, semi, alberi, piante tintorie, tessili, profumate, ornamentali, ecc.) e le affronta in maniera piuttosto semplice, riportando il numero ed i nomi delle specie (le più importanti), le date in cui le piante sono state importate in Europa (gli autori sono inglesi) e qualche informazione più o meno generica. La sezione "ornamentali" è davvero scoraggiante, mentre le piante cosiddette "utili" sono trattate in maniera più completa ed accattivante. La base scientifica di questo libro è molto solida, gliautori sono tutti professori universitari o giù di lì, e Ghillean prance è l'architetto che ha ideato l'Eden Project. Purtroppo il prezzo dell'opera è molto alto, dai 140 Euro in su, anche perchè è di recente pubblicazione (2005).
Da Compagnia del Giardinaggio, sito italiano per appassionati.
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The last plant.......2006-01-28
It's inevitable people made room for plants. Most mammals make their own vitamin C. But people can't. They need plants. So it's also inevitable people took up farming, for balanced, one-stop diets. It meant time to build homes near such basic crops as barley and wheat in the Middle East and West Asia; maize in the Americas; rice in East Asia; and sorghum in sub-Saharan Africa. It meant time to develop civilizations there, and along the Mediterranean. It meant time to grow plants, not just to eat, but for flavor, look, and smell.
Plants spread outside their native range by wind, water, birds and animals. They spread faster and further by people. They spread with trade. They spread with people visiting and taking what they liked. They spread with people moving and bringing something familiar to new homes. They spread with war. For example, 1,700 years ago, barbarians took over Rome until a ransom was paid in peppers.
Contributing writers cover alcohol, caffeine and sweeteners; fragrants; fruits; grains; herbs and vegetables; materials such as latex, oils, poisons and waxes; medicinals; natural fibers and dyes; nuts, pulses, and seeds; ornamentals; psychoactives; roots and tubers; spices; and woods. Each chapter lists the best-known plant examples. Each tells where they started and where they are now.
My favorite chapters are on fragrants; fruits; herbs and vegetables; and ornamentals. Partly it's finding out how many aren't natives. Partly it's because a sentence appeals to me as a Virginia Tech-trained master gardener. It says farming makes life possible. But flower-, fruit- and vegetable-growing makes life something people lead.
THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS is a surprise. It deals with science. But the writing's easy to read. Editors Sir Ghillean Prance and Mark Nesbitt et al do well with many facts and some guesses. They give clear examples, good index, and helpful references. I'd have liked more pictures. But what's there works. As do the main points. First, the last place to find natives is becoming their native homes. Some fit into new homes. Without native diseases and pests, many take over. Invasives will kill 30-47% of all plants in 50 years. Two, wild plants take a beating from cultivated plants. But it's best to keep a plant's full range of cultivated and wild forms. Third, different forms of a cultivated and a wild plant take a beating. But it's best to keep the full range of a cultivated and a wild plant. That works against mass disaster, such as the potato famine in 19th-century Ireland. Of many crops, people grew potatoes. Of potatoes, they grew one kind. So the blight wiped out all. Fourth, there's no getting away from what Virginia Tech master gardening calls the wildlands-urban interface of where nature and people meet. They've actually been more in each other's faces since people stopped grazing and started growing their own food.
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