Cake Decorating (Rainbow Books)

Wilson, Ray

Wilson, Mitzie

Hamlyn

My life in soccer

Pelham Books

Innovations with continuous quality improvement are moving off the manufacturing line, out of the corporation, and into the library. For the first time, this guide applies quality management concepts to make library processes more effective with 29 practical and easy-to-use templates. Field-tested and refined over three years in 17 different, the tools are structured with consistent guidelines. Library success stories and cartoon illustrations bring the principles alive. Examples of library situations, step-by-step instructions and a section of hints, cautions and tricks round out each checklist. Directors and library leaders at public and academic institutions will be able to open this guide and immediately reap these benefits:
<ul>
<li>Lower costs, save time, and improve efficiencies</li>
<li>Improve morale and reduce turnover by optimizing staff talents</li>
<li>Stimulate creative thinking and generate new possibilities with brainstorming</li>
<li>Encourage participation and build teamwork</li>
<li>Make complex issues manageable</li>
<li>Identify root causes of problems and address systemic issues</li>
</ul>
Using these "continuous improvement" tools, mapped to the specific outcomes needed, your library team will consistently add value to its community, make a difference to customers and improve services.

Library’s Continuous Improvement Fieldbook: 29 Ready-to-Use Tools

Laughlin, Sara

Sisco Shockley, Denise

Business & Money

ALA Editions

In an environment of budget cuts and freezes, libraries must keep a tight rein on costs and inefficiencies. The efficiency of systems and processes goes hand-in-hand with excellent customer service. Managers, however, often find themselves far enough removed from the day-to-day activities in the library that they don't know where inefficiencies, mistakes, and poor customer service may occur.
Based on more than 50 years of author expertise in organizational improvement, The Quality Library offers a methodology to pinpoint trouble areas and improve processes. By developing a customer-focused system outlining library processes and networks, administrators and managers can quickly determine areas for improvement that directly apply to the library's goals and missions. Staff will also learn how to statistically document the new process's performance, giving the library a means to quantify its effects.
<ul>
<li>Gives administrators a clear understanding of their suppliers and customers</li>
<li>Empowers front-line staff to make improvements and better decisions</li>
<li>Boosts employee and team morale as they work together to bring about change</li>
<li>Offers real-life success examples showing how process improvement works</li>
<li>Includes figures, appendices, worksheets, and a glossary</li>
</ul>
By continuously evaluating processes based on the guidelines and worksheets provided here, public and academic library administrators and managers will improve the quality and efficiency of service for patrons and staff alike.

The Quality Library: A Guide to Self-Improvement, Better Efficiency, and Happier Customers

Reference

Bought, Not Sold by Ray Wilson is a fascinating expose of a culturally-entrenched real estate profession holding buyers and sellers captive. This book now provides both with liberating knowledge. Unique among the many books advising people on buying and selling homes, it does not pretend to give the layperson professional real estate competence, but shows the way to find trustworthy agents and protect oneself from those who are not. As the cover proclaims, Bought, Not Sold is "what every buyer and seller should know before working with, or against, the pros." It is also a story of real human interest with heroes -- buyer agents and certain seller agents -- struggling to bring consumer reform, and of real-life intrigue with plotting vested interests organized in a campaign to dupe lawmakers with pseudo-reform legislation, in effect sabotaging efforts toward genuine reform. 
Historically, the real estate profession provided agency only to sellers, though buyers paid for all fees through the price, and although buyers in particular had to literally live with the consequences of buying without the protection of agency. Today, facing competition from genuine buyer's agents, and growing consumer awareness of their value, the traditional agents seek to change the laws so they can simply call themselves "buyers' agents" or "buyers' brokers." 
Finally, Bought, Not Sold is a credible work with endorsers of national stature representing a broad spectrum of expert perspective. It is of value not only to consumers, but to providers in real estate and associated professions who want a realistic perspective.

Bought, Not Sold: Single Agency, Buyers' Brokers, Flat Fees and the Consumer Revolution in Real Estate

Real Estate

Cogna Books

"The ROSARY: Prayer for Thinking Christians" (Nihil Obstat: Diocese of Springfield, MA) is not just another rosary book. That is evident in the title's daring implication that repetitive prayer supported by a physical memory device is for "thinking Christians." It begins with an eyebrow-raising report of a message spoken to a lone highway driver and then miraculously confirmed. The startling report does pass the credibility test of the Nihil Obstat censor and well-educated cover endorsers. 
The story moves on and the car is replaced by the distinctly separate vehicles of meditation and contemplation (clearly defined), not merely for the journey in reading the book, but for making every Rosary spoken henceforth an exciting intellectual and spiritual journey into the "Sacred Mysteries," twenty events in the life of Jesus Christ. 
Reason and Faith combine in "reasoning faith" for a journey of the mind and soul which death does not separate. It is a journey taken long ago by faith-filled people along paths traveled by the God of the Living, not of the dead. The events were real, and the people still are, granted life eternal, in the eternal kingdom, present not just "now and forever," but forever and now! 
As the apostles were granted a glimpse into the Kingdom in the sacred mystery of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, the Rosary offers such a glimpse today, not only once, but repetitively. 
This book is not long, and reveals the Rosary to be a flexible itinerary which encourages side trips by the traveler, broadening and enriching the visit in each mystery event according to the traveler's own individual need. The Rosary beads keep the count, the repetition maintains the focus, and the Spirit escorts a freed will and exploring intellect. 
Chapter One – Why – captivates interest with a true adventure and miracle experienced by the author. This chapter also frames the nagging and often vexing question of how repetitive prayer structured around a physical memory device can support “thinking” prayer and rational faith. The secret revealed here is that it does, and the “how” will be revealed by a writer who himself lived with such reservations for many decades, i.e., as a devoted Catholic not appreciating the Rosary’s full devotional value. 
Chapter One-and-a-Half – What – is a mere primer for those unfamiliar with the mechanics of the Rosary. It is optional reading, included for readers to read or bypass according to need. 
Chapter Two – Prayer – explains how meditative and contemplative prayer following the paths of the Rosary through the events of Christ’s earthly life bring the reader to full intellectual and spiritual communion with God. Organization around repetitive formal prayer provides structure which facilitates freedom of thought to travel to the limits of possibilities and return to the central thread that is Christ’s walk among us. It is meaningful repetition rather than the “vain repetition” chastised by Christ. It is traveling with him and his blessed mother in not only reflection of the mysteries of the past, but in the light provided by the God of the Living for the reality of mortal life in the present. 
Chapter Three – Praying the Rosary – is the heart of the book, the guide to understanding the circumstances and essence of each of the twenty mysteries 
Chapter Four – Formal Rosary Prayer" – provides express language for group prayer, with actual scripts for leaders to read aloud, introducing each section and mystery of the Rosary.

The Rosary: Prayer for Thinking Christians

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

CognaBooks

Kelsey's Lesson on Africa Vol. 1

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Village Publishing

African History enhances self-awareness, cultural pride and self-confidence. Ray Wilsons Alphabets books are a must for every childs library. And there are many of the "A is for Apple, B is for Book" variety. Now Ray Wilson has taken a unique approach to his charmingly illustrated new book "Kelseys Lessons on Africa Vol. 1" A is for Africa, G is for Griot, an African storyteller, and M is for the African concept of Maat, which represents truth, balance, and harmony. Here at last is an alphabet book celebrating the customs and accomplishments of the African people. Make it part of your childs library.

Kelsey's Lessons on Africa Vol 2

Obstacles Crusher provide the reader with a recipe for overcoming obstacles and achieving rapid results. It provides a basic understanding of how to develop a positive mindset, define your success, determine the meaning of results, and identifying the obstacles in way, so that the experience rapid success.

Obstacle Crusher: 5 Steps to Rapid Results to Success

Business Culture

Independently published

Dive hands-on into the tools, techniques, and information for making your own analog synthesizer. If you’re a musician or a hobbyist with experience in building electronic projects from kits or schematics, this do-it-yourself guide will walk you through the parts and schematics you need, and how to tailor them for your needs. Author Ray Wilson shares his decades of experience in synth-DIY, including the popular Music From Outer Space (MFOS) website and analog synth community.
At the end of the book, you’ll apply everything you’ve learned by building an analog synthesizer, using the MFOS Noise Toaster kit. You’ll also learn what it takes to create synth-DIY electronic music studio. Get started in the fun and engaging hobby of synth-DIY without delay.
With this book, you’ll learn:
<ul>
<li>The differences between analog and digital synthesizers</li>
<li>Analog synthesizer building blocks, including VCOs, VCFs, VCAs, and LFOs</li>
<li>How to tool up for synth-DIY, including electronic instruments and suggestions for home-made equipment</li>
<li>Foundational circuits for amplification, biasing, and signal mixing</li>
<li>How to work with the MFOS Noise Toaster kit</li>
<li>Setting up a synth-DIY electronic music studio on a budget</li>
</ul>

Make: Analog Synthesizers: Make Electronic Sounds the Synth-DIY Way

Arts & Photography

Music

Make Community, LLC

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