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Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them, How to Keep Them
Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them, How to Keep Them was written to help all those organizations who know they need to adapt to the new economy, but don’t quite know how. It was written to help organizations start thinking again about how they can hold on to their best workers, despite what their competitors are offering. It was written to help organizations surmount the challenges of this new full-employment economy and hire and retain the most competent, motivated, and diverse workforce possible.
Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them, How to Keep Them will show organizations how to:
- Maximize their recruitment and retention dollars.
- Decrease costly turnover, while still managing necessary layoffs with dignity and respect.
- Maximize recruitment dollars by turning employees and managers into goodwill ambassadors and headhunters.
- Utilize multicultural and segment marketing approaches to recruit and retain a diverse workforce.
- Prevent competitors from luring key talent away
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The Hourglass Door
Abby s senior year of high school is textbook perfect: She has a handsome and attentive boyfriend, good friends, good grades, and plans to attend college next year. But when she meets Dante Alexander, a foreign-exchange student from Italy, her life suddenly takes a different turn. He s mysterious, and interesting, and unlike anyone she s ever met before. Abby can t deny the growing attraction she feels for him. Nor can she deny the unusual things that seem to happen when Dante is around. Time behaves differently when they are together traveling too fast or too slow or sometimes seeming to stop altogether. When the band Zero Hour performs at the local hangout, Abby realizes that there s something dangerous about the lead singer, Zo, and his band mates, Tony and V. Oddly, the three of them are also from Italy and have a strange relationship to Dante. They also hold a bizarre influence over their audience when performing. And Abby s best friend, Valerie, is caught in their snare. Dante tells Abby the truth of his past: he once worked for Leonardo Da Vinci, helping to design and build a time machine. When Dante was falsely implicated as a traitor to his country, he was sent through the machine more than five hundred years into the future as punishment. As the past and the present collide, Abby learns that she holds a special power over the flow of time itself. She and Dante must stop Zo from opening the time machine s door and endangering everyone s future. More than one life is at stake and Abby s choice could change everything.
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Netter’s Clinical Skills, 1st Edition
Make the most of every patient encounter – from the clinical interview and history to the physical exam, both in-office and bedside. This discreet quick reference by Ilene L. Rosenberg, MD, FCCP, Todd Cassese, MD, FACP, and Dennis Barbon, RN, helps you achieve consistent and comprehensive results when collecting data and determining your next steps. Carry this thin, fully illustrated checklist in your white coat pocket for the fastest, most efficient way to access essential information you need to know and remember every day.
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Between Shades Of Gray
One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards, thrown into cattle cars and sent away. They are being deported to Siberia.
An unimaginable and harrowing journey has begun. Lina doesn’t know if she’ll ever see her father or her friends again. But she refuses to give up hope.
Lina hopes for her family.
For her country.
For her future.
For love – first love, with the boy she barely knows but knows she does not want to lose . . .Will hope keep Lina alive?
Set in 1941, Between Shades of Gray, is an extraordinary and haunting story based on first-hand family accounts and memories
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LV2 Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Give your child the best head start with reading. Have fun learning first sounds and words together, using the traditional story of Snow White. Phonics is the method of learning to read that most teachers use. Children learn the sounds made by letters, or group of letters, then they blend them together to make words. With 75 stickers and lots of story-based activities children will love learning to read with this educational and engaging phonics book
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George’s Marvellous Medicine
George’s grouchy grandmother needs a taste of her own medicine–and George knows just the right ingredients to put into it!
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Fallen in Love
And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories intersect over the course of a romantic Valentine’s Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding and losing love. Arriane pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. And for the first—and last—time, Daniel and Luce spend a night together like none other.
Lauren Kate’s FALLEN IN LOVE is filled with love stories . . . the ones everyone has been waiting for.
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Songs of Enchantment
The second book in the trilogy which began with the Booker prize-winning The Famished Road.
‘A love story and an account of the conflict between the parties of the Rich and Poor… Okri’s voice is all his own’ Independent
Having outwitted death, Azaro, the spirit child, remains in the land of the Living. Oppression and violence continue to plague the city, and while political factions battle, bar owner Madame Koto backs the ‘Party of the Rich’ with magical, bewitching force. But for Azaro, his adventure is tied up with his parents, and so his story takes on yet another heroic adventure to save them both from the forces of the world.‘Ben Okri writes beautifully…a triumph of inspiration over the everyday’
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Textbook of Orthopedics (Includes Clinical Examination Methods in Orthopedics)
This comprehensive textbook of orthopedics is essential for postgraduate medical students, featuring the latest clinical examination methods and management techniques.
The fifth edition has been fully revised to present the latest developments and understanding in the field. The book covers numerous injuries and disorders, with each topic beginning with an overview of relevant anatomy, followed by principles and methods of diagnosis and clinical and surgical management.
Each chapter includes a brief summary outlining key points, as well as example X-Rays for the topic in discussion.
The fifth edition features new sections on trauma, geriatric orthopaedics, arthroscopy, and surgical techniques, as well as additional images including new X-Rays and MRI scans, and line diagrams.
Key Points
Comprehensive guide to orthopaedics for postgraduate medical students
Fully revised, fifth edition with new topics
More than 1300 clinical images and diagrams, many new to this edition
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Forensic Pathology Principles and Practice
Forensic Pathology is a comprehensive reference that uses a case-oriented format to address, explain and guide the reader through the varied topics encountered by forensic pathologists. Developed in response to a severe void in the literature, the book addresses topics ranging from medicolegal investigation of death to death scene investigation, forensic autopsy, and artifacts of resuscitation as well as complications of medical therapy, forensic osteology, forensic odontology, forensic photography, and death certification. The book includes various types of cases, including sudden natural death, asphyxia, motor vehicle collisions, death in custody, child abuse and elder abuse, acute psychiatric and emotional deaths, and pregnancy. It contains sample descriptions of pathological lesions which serve to aid pathologists in reporting their findings to law enforcement agencies, attorneys, and others involved in investigations of sudden death. The concepts outlined in the text are beautifully illustrated by large, colorful photographs. There are also “Do and Don’t” sections at the end of each chapter that provide guidance for handling the types of cases examined. This work will benefit not only experienced forensic pathologists, but also hospital pathologists who occasionally performs medicolegal autopsies; doctors in training; medical examiners; law enforcement personnel; crime scene investigators; attorneys; and fellows and students of the medical sciences.