Steve Martin: 40 books

The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly...

Engagement is trendy. Although paired most often with community, diverse invocations of engagement have gained cache, capturing longstanding shifts toward new practices of knowledge making that both reflect and facilitate multiple ways of being an academic. Engagement functions as a gloss for these...

Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life. Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what...

Heavy Hitter Sales Linguistics shows senior salespeople how to improve their sales success using nothing more than words and their voices. The book presents 101 practical solutions and proven tactics to build relationships with customers and persuade them to buy during sales calls. Heavy Hitter Sales...

Architecture for the Intelligent Enterprise: Powerful New Ways to Maximize the Real-time Value of Information   Tomorrow’s winning “Intelligent Enterprises” will bring together far more diverse sources of data, analyze it in more powerful ways, and deliver immediate insight to decision-makers...

In 1999, the IMF and the World Bank adopted a new frame work for supporting economic reform in low-income member countries to achieve the objectives of poverty reduction and economic growth. The frame work consists of two key elements: country-authored Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, drawing on broad-based...

The world had become used to the metahumans-people sometimes perfectly ordinary,but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance-who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers, fighting crime, and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals. Then that comfortable...

"Trial by Fire" Part Two: The EXPLOSIVE finale to the "Rise of the Heroes"! The M.L.J. is sabotaged, the Brain Emperor commands a small army of super villains, the Z.I.P. prison is in full riot, and the New Crusaders are caught in the middle! Even with the help of some old familiar...

A compilation of key chapters from the top MK computer animation books available today - in the areas of motion capture, facial features, solid spaces, fluids, gases, biology, point-based graphics, and Maya. The chapters provide CG Animators with an excellent sampling of essential techniques that...

The busy surgeon will find this unique issue packed with useful, practical information on pancreatic surgery. Topics include the 'borderline resectable' pancreas, pathologic analysis of pancreatic carcinoma, quality metrics, antimicrobial therapy in severe acute pancreatitis, management of pancreatic...

Bill and Nell were feeding the birds and caressing them when they woke up to find themselves separated each in a huge dark cave. Nell searched and searched for Bill and when she couldnt find him, she gathered a group of people wandering through the caves and invited them to a large opening in the...

Wie konnte das britische Finanzamt die Rücklaufquote bei den fälligen Steuerzahlungen innerhalb eines Jahres von 57% auf 86% erhöhen? In dem sie einen einzigen Satz auf ihrem Standardanschreiben an die Steuerschuldner ergänzten. Der Rücklauf stieg von 290 Mio. GBP auf 560 Mio. GBP. Das macht...