A noted psychologist explains how to find joy in spending time alone in a society where so much emphasis is placed on "finding someone." For the newly alone, as well as those who have long enjoyed solitude, this clear, practical guide shows how to achieve self-fulfillment, an appreciation of individuality, and self-esteem.

Positive Solitude: A Practical Program for Mastering Loneliness and Achieving Self-Fulfillment

Self-Help

André, Rae

Relationships

Perennial

Key Benefit: Encourage problem-solving and critical thinking with Organizational Behavior: An Introduction to Your Life in Organizations—a practical, student-oriented, and experientially based text. Key Topics: The author examines cross-cultural relationships, global issues that impact businesses today, and the relevance of OB to future careers. Market: For undergraduate and applied graduate courses in OB.

Organizational Behavior: An Introduction to Your Life in Organizations

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Pearson College Div

Organizational Behavior, Student Value Edition

PRENTICE/HALL

Andre’s unique problem-solving approach presents students first with the real-life problems individuals face in organizations and then explores the research findings that can help people meet these challenges. Andre leads with the problem, applies the OB solution, and then explores the theories behind the application.

Organizational Behaviour: An Introduction to Your Life in Organizations, First Canadian Edition with MyManagementLab

Taplin, L.J.

Human Resources

Pearson Education Canada

Homemakers: The Forgotten Workers

Examines sex and work roles, how they are changing, and what homemakers can do when they need to reenter the job market

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

Univ of Chicago Pr

Discusses the guidelines suggested by the One Minute Manager, explains why this management approach can be simplistic and ineffective, and tells employees how to deal with their managers

59-Second Employee: How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager

Business Culture

Houghton/Mifflin

The 59-Second Employee is an employees response to formula management, an antidote to the quick-fix corporation. It is a little book that speaks volumes about cooperation in management and brings more control to those at the bottom of the corporate ladder. It describes how employees can use one-minute phrasing, reprimands, and goal-setting to their own advantage and how any employee can learn to manage up. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, The 59-Second Employee sold more than 100,000 copies and was reprinted in numerous foreign editions. It was a Publishers Weekly best-selling trade paperback.

The 59-Second Employee : How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One Minute Manager

Ward, Peter D.

iUniverse

How can a person alone find love and meaning in life? Being happy alone is an essential life skill that psychologist Rae André calls positive solitude. Here is an intelligent response to the loneliness, loss of community, and desperate relationships that have become so much a part of our times. This holistic approach explains how to avoid the traps of loneliness while learning to face the challenges of living alone. Positive Solitude is a clear, practical guide for those who are newly alone or unhappy alone, and an affirmation for those who have long enjoyed their solitude.

Positive Solitude : A Practical Program for Mastering Loneliness and Achieving Self-Fulfillment

Happiness

A comic adventure set in the zany world of sports card collectors.Don't miss the author's trivia challenge!From his mansion on Long Island Sound, big-time sports collector Will Finney orchestrates an empire of deals and dealers. He and his down-home buddies from all walks of life make it big in the Hobby by using insider know-how and scam artist tricks.Will gets his advice on business and women from the likes of Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean and Satchel Paige. When he is recruited by an international crime consortium to crack a syndicate of counterfeiters, he risks his reputation in the Hobby and the attentions of a beautiful trader to protect the international monetary system. From the local shows to the National, Cards captures the light side of the Hobby...its great guys, its comic scams, and its fundamental American eccentricities.Cards is major league entertainment!From the co-author of the irreverent bestseller The 59:Second Employee?How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager (iUniverse and Houghton Mifflin). The author is a macha type who, despite spending her formative years among four card?trading brothers, still throws like a girl.

Cards: The Best and Only Novel about Baseball Card Collectors

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

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