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Maximize employee performance with this updated edition of the classic best seller. In Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement, renowned thought leader and internationally recognized workplace expert Aubrey Daniels takes a look at today's rapidly changing work environment, providing a timely update to his seminal book on performance management. As one of the foremost speakers and writers in the human performance field, for nearly 40 years Daniels has worked with organizations to apply scientifically based behavioral tools and principles to effectively address workplace issues - particularly as they relate to management, leadership, culture, innovation, safety, engagement, and collaboration. Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Apply the Astonishing Power of Positive Reinforcement presents Daniels' proven strategies that have been successfully adopted by hundreds of organizations worldwide - ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies - and delivers step-by-step instruction and positive practices to help you implement and sustain positive change. With a behavioral foundation and new chapters on employee engagement and the impact of the exponential increase in technology, this latest edition features all new examples, updated approaches to effective recognition and rewards systems, tips for stimulating and fostering innovation and creativity, and productive ways to embrace and empower the multigenerational workforce, including millennials and future generations. This timely update tackles the changes in the contemporary work environment while providing step-by-step instructions and proven practices that have been adopted by Daniels' global clients, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Learn how to: Create effective recognition and rewards systems that are positively reinforcing to employees Stimulate innovation and creativity in exciting new ways Understand fluency as an efficient way to reduce training costs and increase training effectiveness for all employees Engage employees in ways that lead to improved performance and a stronger culture Motivate and empower the multigenerational workforce Understand and shape how technology is affecting employee behavior - for better and worse

No access codes included. With its unrivaled art program and accessible writing style, McKinley et al.'s Human Anatomy stands apart from other anatomy texts. High-quality photographs paired with brilliantly rendered illustrations help students visualize, understand, and appreciate the wonders of human anatomy. The author team incorporates their over seventy years of teaching experience into student-friendly Learning Strategies, Clinical View boxes, and progressive question sets that motivate students to internalize and apply what they've learned. Users who purchase Connect receive access to the full online eBook version of the textbook, as well as access to LearnSmart, SmartBook, and Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED 3.2.

* * * Over 4 Million Copies Sold * * * The New York Times bestseller that changed the way millions communicate“[Crucial Conversations] draws our attention to those defining moments that literally shape our lives, our relationships, and our world. . . . This book deserves to take its place as one of the key thought leadership contributions of our time.”―from the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People“The quality of your life comes out of the quality of your dialogues and conversations. Here’s how to instantly uplift your crucial conversations.”―Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®“Coming in as the new CEO of an organization with many tenured employees, I have had many crucial conversations. Using Crucial Conversations as my playbook during this time was paramount in guiding me through each conversation.”―Joanne K. Bryson, CAE, Executive Vice President and CEO, Oregon Medical Association“Any book is powerful if you can relate to its content, is simple to understand, easy to apply, and is based on research. I have found all of these elements in Crucial Conversations. The narrative has a universal appeal and the strength to transcend cultures.”Capt. Charanjit Lehal, AGM Training and Development, TataSky, India“I was personally and professionally inspired by this book―and I’m not easily impressed.”―Maureen Burke, Training Manager, Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.About the Book:Perhaps once a decade, a book comes along that transforms people’s lives in a very real, measurable way. This is one of them.Crucial Conversations exploded onto the scene ten years ago and revolutionized the way people communicate when stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. Since then, millions of people have learned how to hold effective crucial conversations and have dramatically improved their lives and careers thanks to the methods outlined in this book.Now, the authors have revised their bestselling classic to provide even more ways to help you take the lead in any tough conversation:New firsthand accounts of how these skills changed readers’ livesNew case studies showing how business leaders successfully applied these methods to achieve resultsNew links to videos teaching what to do and what to avoid during crucial conversationsNew research findings offering fresh insights for applying the skills taught in the bookCrucial Conversations is filled with practical advice you can start using today:Prepare for high-stakes conversationsMake it safe to talk about almost anythingTransform unpleasant emotions into powerful dialogueBe persuasive, not abrasiveCrucial Conversations gets you past the hard parts of dialogue and helps you achieve relationships that are real, productive, and that will enrich your life and career.

Vocabulary skills come easy when practice is fun!If you are looking for extra vocabulary help for your middle school student, you will find this book an invaluable resource. Featuring hundreds of essential vocabulary words, this book offers extensive opportunities for students to learn the vocabulary found in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade curriculums. Each of the book’s dozens of lessons focuses on a group of words that will strengthen your student’s vocabulary. After the introduction of new vocabulary, each lesson includes three worksheets designed to make learning new words easy and fun. Vocabulary Grades 6-8 features:•More than 500 words appropriate for students in grades 6 through 8•45 engaging lessons that will help your student learn both meaning and usage•Vocabulary related to math, social studies, science, health, and time•A puzzle format that makes practicing vocabulary fun •The tools to master synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and easily confused words•Guidance on learning prefixes, suffixes, and compound words•An alphabetical word list at the end of the book that makes looking up vocabulary easyAfter completing this workbook, your middle school student’s new word skills will help your child to excel in both the classroom and on standardized tests.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The comprehensive program that will lead you from beginner to Spanish mastery one step at a timeBased on the idea that the quickest route to learning Spanish is through a solid grounding in grammar basics, Complete Spanish Step by Step combines two bestselling guides in one. Easy Spanish Step by Step and Advanced Spanish Step by Step. From the very beginning, you are introduced to the most essential structures―allowing you to communicate in Spanish almost immediately. Then, through a series of interconnected “steps,” you will progress in logical way to more common concepts that govern how Spanish is spoken and written.Along the way, you are introduced to hundreds of carefully selected verbs and vocabulary words presented on the basis of how often they are used in everyday Spanish. You will then progress to more advanced topics needed for Spanish proficiency, including the use of the preterit and imperfect tenses, commands, the present and past subjunctive, idioms, and more.Guaranteed to get you quickly up and running with the knowledge and skills you need to communicate proficiently in Spanish, Complete Spanish Step by Step features:• A unique “building block” approach to mastering essential grammar, verbs, and vocabulary• Down to earth explanations of important rules and concepts• More than 300 verbs and hundreds of key terms introduced on the basis of frequency• More than 250 exercises to test what you’re learned and measure progress• Engaging readings that help you hone your skills in everyday contexts• Audio recordings of every reading, via app and online, to build your listening comprehension

Make your first million and earn a steady income with this updated, essential guide to real estate investingThe collapse in real estate prices from 2007 through 2012 was the most significant event in the real estate industry since the Great Depression. But today, with the real estate market rebounding, a new generation of investors is entering the field, eager to make their fortune. Building Wealth One House at a Time, 2nd Edition provides you with a practical way to create wealth through an ethical approach of buying, financing, and managing property. Renowned real estate expert John W. Schaub takes you through his 9-step program and explains how to accumulate one million dollars’ worth of houses debt free in any market, while earning a steady cash flow.This invaluable guide presents fresh strategies for buying and financing property, reflected in six new chapters on topics such as real estate cycles, financing real estate purchases, negotiation techniques, and retirement investing. You’ll learn how to:• Finance real estate purchases without going to a bank• Recognize and capitalize on real estate cycles• Improve your negotiation skills in any situation• Avoid common and costly mistakes• Create cash flow that lasts forever, and much moreBuilding Wealth One House at a Time, 2nd Edition reveals how virtually anyone can accumulate houses debt free and earn an income for life.

Build your confidence in your Spanish skills with practice, practice, practice! From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all those aspects of Spanish grammar that you might find a little intimidating or hard to remember. Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar focuses on the practical aspects of Spanish as it's really spoken, so you are not bogged down by unnecessary technicalities. Each unit features crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of engaging exercises in a variety of formats--including multiple choice, fill-in sentences and passages, sentence rewrites, and creative writing--perfect for whatever your learning style. Whenever possible, explanations include comparisons you to understand the basic logic behind the rules and to remember correct usage. This new edition includes: Time-saving vocabulary panels that eliminate having to look words up Advice on how to avoid common mistakes A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks Supporting audio recordings, flashcards, and auto-fill glossary available online and via app

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A compelling look inside the mind and powerful leadership methods of America’s coaching legend, John Wooden "Team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, determination. . . . Acquire and keep these traits and success should follow."--Coach John Wooden John Wooden’s goal in 41 years of coaching never changed; namely, to get maximum effort and peak performance from each of his players in the manner that best served the team. Wooden on Leadership explains step-by-step how he pursued and accomplished this goal. Focusing on Wooden’s 12 Lessons in Leadership and his acclaimed Pyramid of Success, it outlines the mental, emotional, and physical qualities essential to building a winning organization, and shows you how to develop the skill, confidence, and competitive fire to “be at your best when your best is needed”--and teach your organization to do the same. Praise for Wooden on Leadership: “What an all-encompassing Pyramid of Success for leadership! Coach Wooden’s moral authority and brilliant definition of success encompass all of life. How I admire his life’s work and concept of what it really means to win!”--Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People and The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness “Wooden On Leadership offers valuable lessons no matter what your endeavor. 'Competitive Greatness' is our goal and that of any successful organization. Coach Wooden’s Pyramid of Success is where it all starts.” --Jim Sinegal, president & CEO, Costco

All the Math Your 7th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.Features include:• A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 7• Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scores―in class and on achievement tests• A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work• End-of-chapter tests to measure students’ progress• A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book• More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered:• Mathematical operations and number properties• Negative numbers and absolute value• Solving problems with rational numbers• Ratios and proportions• Percent and percent change• Graphing relationships and unit rates• Roots and exponents• Scientific notation• Solving equations and inequalities• Customary and metric units of measure, including conversions• Data presentation • Statistics and probability • Constructing and analyzing geometric figures• Solving problems involving angle measure, area, surface area, and volume

All the Math Your 4th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.Features include:• A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 4• Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scores―in class and on achievement tests• A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work• End-of-chapter tests to measure students’ progress• A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book• More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered:• Adding and subtracting• Multiplying and dividing• 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers• Rounding and estimating• Prime numbers, factors, and multiples• Operations with fractions and mixed numbers• Decimals• Customary and metric units of measure• Lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles• Perimeter and area• Data line plots• Word problems• Multistep problems and variables

The 13th edition of Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World is written from the perspective of a current or future manager and emphasizes six essential performance dimensions on which an organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition: cost, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability. Throughout the text, the authors remind students of these six dimensions and their impact on the bottom line through the use of marginal icons. This results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this text. New questions further emphasize the bottom line, with answers provided in the instructor's manual. The text features outstanding pedagogy that gives students a real sense of the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead and explains how they can affect the bottom line. It engages students with the following:•Management in Action, a hallmark feature that appears in the first step of each chapter's unfolding three-part cases (Manager's Brief, Progress Report, Onward), lets students apply what they have learned about today's business leaders and companies. Most of these features have been updated or replaced to focus on well-known companies, such as Amazon, Apple, Starbucks, Apple, General Motors, Uber, and PepsiCo.•The Digital World offers unique examples of how companies and other users employ digital and social media in ways that capitalize on various ideas in each chapter.•Multiple Generations at Work boxes discuss chapter themes from multigenerational perspectives, based on data rather than stereotypes, with a goal of strengthening what too often are difficult workplace relationships.•Social Enterprise boxes have been updated and offer examples illustrating chapter themes from outside the private sector.•Elements include page-referenced key terms; Retaining What You Learned, which provides clear, concise responses to the learning objectives; Discussion Questions that ask for opinions on controversial issues; and Experiential Exercises, which bring key concepts to life.•Concluding Cases use disguised but real-life situations to reinforce key chapter elements and themes. Supplementary Cases are available for instructors who want students to delve further into each topic.•Other text features include Manager's Challenge and Management Snapshot; Manager as Person; Management Insight; and Ethics, Global, Diversity, and Information Technology Bytes.•Manager's Hot Seat videos put students in the manager's hot seat, where they use critical-thinking skills to apply the concepts they have learned to real challenges.•Campus allows instructors and students to enjoy single-sign-on access to all McGraw-Hill Higher Education materials, as well as a variety of free content like flash cards and narrated presentations.

Save BIGGER THAN EVER with this fully updated edition of the classic tax-saving guide!Tax whiz Jeff Schnepper has been helping ordinary taxpayers dramatically lower their tax bills for decades. Now, Schnepper brings his classic guide up to date for the coming tax season.Presented in language anyone can understand, How to Pay Zero Taxes 2020-2021 delivers everything you need to take full advantage of the newest tax laws―and pay the IRS less than ever before. Schnepper uncovers hundreds of sanctioned deductions, shelters, credits, and exemptions and provides invaluable tax tips you’ll only find here. You’ll learn how to navigate the tax code like a pro and save the maximum legal amounts on:• Capital gains and dividends• IRA and retirement plans• Converting personal expenses into deductible business expenses• Charitable deductions• Child care and elder care• Moving and job-hunting expenses• Mortgages and points• Investment expensesEvery April, thousands of people around the country pay far more than they have to. Don’t give the IRA one dollar more than the law requires. Use How to Pay Zero Taxes 2020-2021 to keep more of your hard-earned money in your own pocket.