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"This worldwide bestseller offers simple guidance for building the kind of open and trusting relatonships vital for tackling global systemic challenges and developing adaptive, innovative organizations--over 200,000 copies sold and translated into seventeen languages! We live, say Edgar and Peter Schein, in a culture of "tell." All too often we tell others what we think they need to know or should do. But whether we are leading or following, what...
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Management Impact Publishing
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2022.
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English
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People are complex beings and so is behavioural change, but you'll be able to do more than you think possible. And once you understand how people arrive at decisions, you will find yourself with gold in your hands. Marketeers, policy-makers, HR-professionals, managers - and also even you yourself. Almost all of us are coping with the question how we might influence human behaviour. One thing is clear: changing behaviour is pretty difficult. But why...
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Dover Publications
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2015.
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English
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Written when the young science of chaos was gaining a foothold in the scientific community, this book introduces the field's concepts, applications, theory, and technique. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, researchers, and teachers of mathematics, physics, and engineering, the text's major prerequisite is familiarity with differential equations and linear vector spaces. Author S. Neil Rasband discusses the major models for...
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New York Times Bestseller: A man who gained the world but lost his soul faces a critical midlife crisis in this suspenseful and inspiring novel about love and forgiveness. On a stormy, windswept night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself. But he did not die. Now, the fifty-five-year-old Pennsylvania powerbroker and business titan--a living example of the American Dream--lies in a bed in a psychiatric hospital. He is on suicide watch, barely able to recognize...
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Gatekeeper Press
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2023.
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English
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Discover a Healthier You with "Wellness 101: Simple Steps to Good Health” It's Easier Than You Think! Are you tired of feeling confused when it comes to your health? Do you need help navigating the overwhelming world of online health advice? Say goodbye to confusion and take charge of your well-being with "Wellness 101: Simple Steps to Good Health." Get ready to embark on a transformative journey toward a happier, healthier life. Simplicity for...
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Open Road Media
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2011.
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The blockbuster modern science classic that introduced the butterfly effect to the world-even more relevant two decades after it became an international sensation For centuries, scientific thought was focused on bringing order to the natural world. But even as relativity and quantum mechanics undermined that rigid certainty in the first half of the twentieth century, the scientific community clung to the idea that any system, no matter how complex,...
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HarperCollins
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"A marvelous book… thought provoking and highly entertaining." --Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think "Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser." --George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics "Revolutionary." -- New York Times Book Review Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal...
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5m Publishing
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2022.
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Intended for dog owners who want to learn more, Canine Behaviour in Mind provides practical ideas that can be incorporated in daily interactions with dogs.Canine Behaviour in Mind presents advice on behavioural change in achievable and creative ways. It examines how the way we live and work with dogs may need adjusting to promote positive behavioural change in the animal as well as better welfare.Case studies with experts are included to guide readers...
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University of New South Wales Press
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2022.
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In Curlews on Vulture Street, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones reveals the not-so-secret lives of the most common birds that share our towns and cities. Despite the noise, heat, dust and fumes, the ceaseless movement, light and toxins, many birds successfully live their lives among us. And not just furtively in the shadows. Ibis steal our lunch, brush turkeys rearrange gardens, and magpies chase us screaming from near their nest. From his childhood...
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Culture Crossing
Discover the Key to Making Successful Connections in the New Global Era
In an era when people, money, and information are flowing faster than ever across international boundaries, we are all just one step away from a culture crash. It's a phenomenon that occurs when someone from one culture unintentionally confuses or offends someone from another culture.
Today, culture crashes even occur on our home turf, where our workplaces and...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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[2023]
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English
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"Discover a more agile, democratic, and effective model of leadership, from legendary business scholar Edgar Schein and Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein. Legendary organizational scholar Edgar Schein and former Silicon Valley executive Peter Schein say leadership today requires that people transcend their hierarchical roles and relate to each other as human beings-what they call humble leadership. In such relationships new ideas can flow freely,...
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Dogwise Publishing
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[2022]
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English
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In this companion workbook to their best selling book, Canine Enrichment for the Real World, authors Allie Bender and Emily Strong present a detailed breakdown of each of the steps of their Enrichment Framework and provide all the information you need to successfully and sustainably incorporate enrichment into your dog's every day life.
Offering enrichment ensures that all of your dog's needs are met, in every aspect of their life, from health and...
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"Why we run with -- or avoid -- the crowd, and why it matters, from choosing a restaurant in a tourist trap to believing fake news. I learned a lot" (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist ). Rioting teenagers, tumbling stock markets, and the spread of religious terrorism appear to have little in common, but all are driven by the same basic instincts: the tendency to herd, follow, and imitate others. In today's interconnected world, group...
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Hanover Square Press
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2018.
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English
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Have you ever wondered what your cat is saying?
Cats do not meow randomly, nor do they growl or hiss because they have nothing better to do. Cat sounds have a purpose, and they can carry important messages, whether for us or other cats.
Susanne Schötz is hard at work on breaking the cat code. She is a professor at Lund University in Sweden, where a long-standing research program is proving that cats do actually use vocal communication-with...
19) Horrid Henry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Horrid Henry causes his brother Perfect Peter all sorts of problems when he behaves properly for a change, upstages Peter at a dance recital, plays pirates, and goes on a camping trip.
20) Never Cry Wolf
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This international bestseller that changed the way we look at wolves “opens new horizons in understanding animal nature and intelligence” (Newsday). In 1948, Farley Mowat landed in the far north of Manitoba, Canada, a young biologist sent to investigate the region’s dwindling population of caribou. Many people thought that the caribous’ conspicuous decline had been caused by the tundra’s most notorious predator: the wolf. Alone among the...
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