Written from a practitioner viewpoint with case studies and examples from a wide variety of industries, this is a practical text for Learning & Development and Human Resource practitioners, providing an in-depth treatment of all the aspects of people development within today's organizations. Readers will want more than just the theory - they want to know how to apply it as an internal consultant and what the potential pitfalls can be. Most importantly, they want practical strategies for introducing and implementing new management development practices. The text shows how to apply new approaches to old problems and provide new ways of creating high performance within an organization. This book offers an in-depth explanation of the key principles, problems to be addressed and strategies for success in developing effective managers and leaders. The style is both pragmatic and tactical, based on academic theory but grounded in the day to day reality of what is possible in today's organizations.
The story begins in 1864, the last four months of the Civil War. Savannah Ga. has learned that General Sherman was coming to their city. The residents panic and pack up their belongs sure that Sherman would do to Savannah what he did to Atlanta Ga. The heroine, Sally, is driven out of town by the last man she would have chosen,even though Kent is her brother-in-law. Kent's brother was off fighting in the war. Their destination is St. Augustine Fl. Where her cousin Claire lives. Along the way they will face many obstacles, some by way of nature, and the Northern soldiers. More problems arrive once Sally and Kent are in love. They are convinced that Frank has been killed in the war. There is also a battle to fight with Sally's Uncle Temple, a greedy, vindictive, imitation of a man. Sally loathed him. She does her best to avoid him when he comes to St. Augustine looking for her. Frank survives the war, and comes to take her back home to Savannah which was saved by the wrath of General Sherman. The story comes full circle when Sally and Kent dream of their lives together, along with the three children they found in Brunswick Ga.
A New Godly Eating Lifestyle is a revolutionary plan that worked fabulously for the author, who lost and has kept off 80 pounds and has completely healed her thyroid after 25 years of thyroid disease. She feels that God pushed her and inspired her to write and finish this revolutionary book to help others find freedom from the dance with diets and the struggle to freedom for all with eating disorders. This Plan will lead to your freedom from eating disorders and start healing your thyroid, as well as many other known health benefits. A New Godly Eating Lifestyle focuses on intermittent fasting combined with water and prayer. There are 30 meditations, which include scripture, commentary, and prayer for each different meditation. The author is currently writing a second volume to provide 30 more meditations and fresh insights from readers and doers of The A.N.G.E.L. Plan. You’ll find a whole new way of life!
God decrees a special child will be born, and carefully chooses the parents who will give her life. Since the moment of conception Lenora is a child of God and will share a unique personal relationship with the Almighty. She fulfills Gods plan as an angel on earth starting from an early age. When her three-year-old brother has a horrific accident, she asks God if He can send an angel. The Lord dispatches the Angel Gabriel, who is quite humorous in addition to being strikingly handsome. Throughout the story, he will pop in and vanish at will. An Angel Remembered is based on a true story. The author uses her own vivid imagination throughout the book, but numerous events happened as written. Allow yourselves to fall in love with a cast of memorable characters as you travel with them from World War II into the year 2000. Remember, with God all things are possible.
Benci, Irene, and their four children live in Budapest, Hungary. In the fall of 1956, they find themselves, along with the rest of the country, caught in a revolution that is ignited by young men and women. Fed up with a communist regime that has ruled since World War II, they march in protest, determined to rid their city of total control from a government with no conscience. Because Benci is a former soldier and a college professor, his life is threatened if he doesnt report for duty to fight his fellow citizens. Ignoring those orders, Benci and his family prepare to flee. Hundreds have already died in what started as peaceful demonstrations. A neighbors twelve-year-old son is killed for the crime of looking out a window. Their neighbors look to Benci for guidance. He is a man who is a world-champion fencer, which has earned him a celebrity status among his countrymen. Reluctantly, he takes on the challenge to lead about two dozen citizensmen, women, and children. Along the way, they face death several times and a frightening walk across a swaying bridge made of nothing more than planks and rope. Keeping the children safe and protected from the realities of their situation becomes the harshest, most emotional role Irene has ever played as a mother. Irenes entire world has always been devoted to her childrenMara, ten; Vera, eight; Andow, seven; and Gari, five. Now more than ever, they need her the most. Once they arrive safely in Austria, everyone rejoicesthat is, whoever is still alive. Of the two dozen who started out on this long journey, only fifteen remain. Irene cannot share the jubilations; she is heartbroken. Their freedom forced her to abandon her homeland and forsake her family, especially her mother, Gitta, who proclaimed that she was too old to make such a journey. My slowing you down could end in disaster for you and the children. No, its better that I stay here. The story continues until the children are young men and women. Because of Irenes fear of strangers due to years of not being able to trust anyone, she refuses to attend functions at Rutgers University, where Benci is employed. She will not allow a stranger to babysit her children, which leads to a bitter divorce; and Irene, though devastated, never accepts any responsibility for the failed marriage.
On a cool February morning in 1961, twenty-five-year-old Matt Grazi faces the most unwanted change of his life. His pro-ball career over, he stands as coach across the field from a platoon of teenage delinquents at Colby Hill Reform School for Boys (CHB) in the northern panhandle of Florida. Previously a star football quarterback at Florida State University (FSU), Matt knows a successful coaching season is his chance to remain in the world of football, and his opportunity to give value to his years spent on the football field. Not one to back away from a challenge, he gears up to communicate with the teens only to find CHB is riddled with complications. Beauregard Harper, Bo, is a superb athlete and boxer, and could be a physical asset to the team, but is defiant and has his own set of rules. With a personal vengeance, Matt mentors Bo and uses sports to develop a new sense of awareness and pride. He struggles to recruit every boy who wants to play, and fights to bring the boys together as a team. Amid gross and unjust brutalities at one of the largest reform school in the nation, Matt and Bo share a journey that transforms their lives. In this place of injustices, frustration, anger, and sadness, they cultivate a relationship similar to that of a father and son.
Silent memories unlock simmering passions ... He found her on the beach with no memory and a gun ... FBI Agent Ryan Williams had a soft spot for women in distress and this one was a textbook example. He'd come to Paradise for some R and R-instead he took in a beautiful stranger with killers on her trail. Ryan had named her AJ, but she hadn't a clue to her identity. Even her reflection was that of a stranger's. But she knew something terrible had happened to those closest to her. Because of her. And unless she unlocked the secrets of her past, Ryan's kindness and his growing feelings for her would.
Collected to help parents deal with their grief over losing a child, this book includes stories written by parents who have been through this devastating experience.
This book is a visual guide to over a hundred of archaeological and historic treasures of Waterford ranging from the Viking age to the twentieth century.
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