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Making self-employment work for people with disabilities
Par Cary Griffin, David Hammis. 2003
Experienced vocational counselors offer a practical handbook that provides individuals with disabilities information on how to start and maintain a…
small business. Includes suggestions on preparing a business plan and market strategies, understanding and using government programs, and finding mentors and useful web sites. 2003The big fix: how the pharmaceutical industry rips off American consumers
Par Katharine Greider. 2003
Reporter analyzes the aggressive marketing and pricing practices of pharmaceutical companies while also recognizing the enormous benefits of their products…
in reducing pain and controlling illness. Discusses secret drug price policies, efforts to extend patent protection for high-priced blockbusters, research schemes, and advertising gimmicks that promote prescription drugs and increase health care costs. 2003Dupuis Frères: le magasin du peuple : [plus d'un siècle de fierté québécoise
Par Josette Dupuis-Leman. 2002
En 1864, en pleine récession économique, Euphrasie Richard-Dupuis, une veuve courageuse, accompagnée de ses huit garçons et de sa fille,…
quittent le petit village de Saint-Jacques-de-l'Achigan sur une charrette brinquebalante pour aller chercher fortune à Montréal. En quelques années, la maîtresse femme et sa descendance réussissent à force d'efforts surhumains à mettre sur pied un humble commerce, puis un grand magasin qui, pendant plus d'un siècle, fut l'un des fleurons de la rue Sainte-Catherine et la fierté de tous les Québécois [...]. -- 4e de couvBaghdad diaries: a woman's chronicle of war and exile
Par Nuha Radi. 1998
A western-educated Iraqi artist depicts her life in Baghdad during the 1991 Gulf War and her virtual exile in the…
years thereafter. Al-Radi records the everyday struggles of her relatives and friends to keep going in the face of bombing raids, the subsequent UN embargo and other fallouts of the warHistoire des codes secrets: de l'Egypte des Pharaons à l'ordinateur quantique
Par Simon Singh. 1999
De tout temps, les souverains ou généraux ont été conscients des risques encourus si leurs messages tombaient aux mains de…
l'ennemi. La crainte de ces interceptions fut à l'origine du développement des codes secrets. L'auteur trace ici les grandes lignes de l'évolution de ces codes et de leur influence sur le cours de l'histoire. Du même coup, il présente la lutte incessante que se sont fait les concepteurs et briseurs de code, lutte qui a permis de remarquables percées scientifiquesDu poisson dans les fraises: notre alimentation manipulée
Par Arnaud Apoteker. 1999
"Le génie génétique est une révolution qui gagne silencieusement nos assiettes". Nourri d'enquêtes sur le terrain et d'une bonne connaissance…
du dossier, l'auteur brosse un tableau complet de la situation actuelle de l'utilisation des organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) dans l'alimentation et des risques qu'elle représente pour la santé de la population. [SDMLe drame du Titanic
Par Philippe Masson. 1998
Quatre-vingt-cinq ans après sa disparition, le 15 avril 1912, le Titanic suscite toujours la curiosité passionnée des foules. Naufrage catastrophe…
- il y eut plus de 1500 disparus -, l'image du géant des mers s'enfonçant dans les eaux noires de l'Atlantique a frappé durablement les esprits. L'auteur, spécialiste de la marine et agrégé d'histoire, reconstitue dans ce livre les étapes du drame et répond à un certain nombre de questions troublantes. [SDMCommunications d'affaires (Français pour tous)
Par Hélène Dufour. 1992
La mondialisation racontée à ma fille (Document)
Par André Fourçans. 2001
Demandez et vous recevrez
Par Pierre Morency. 2002
Un ouvrage où l'auteur, conférencier en motivation, livre les recettes qui ont fonctionné pour lui. Si tout va mal dans…
votre vie, finances, couple, travail, santé, vie sociale, remontez à la cause. Quand vous aurez trouvé votre chemin, le succès personnel viendra, et ce faisant, l'argent aussiPour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme (L'Histoire immédiate)
Par Hervé Kempf. 2009
"Dans les innombrables débats qui ont accompagné la publication de Comment les riches détruisent la planète, une question fut inlassablement…
posée à l'auteur du livre : que faut-il faire ? C'est pour répondre à cette interpellation et à cette urgence que l'auteur a écrit ce nouvel ouvrage. Il le fait dans le même style à la fois radical et rigoureux. À ses yeux, il est urgent de changer de modèle. Ce n'est pas l'économie de marché en tant que telle qu'il s'agit de dénoncer, mais la forme nouvelle prise aujourd'hui par le capitalisme. Une forme qui, mécaniquement, privilégie le gaspillage, le saccage de la planète, l'inégalité et la consommation ostentatoire. Cette dernière, qui est le fait des plus riches, fixe pour la grande masse des modèles de comportements désastreux. Nul ne peut espérer sauver la planète si une remise en cause drastique de ce système prédateur n'est pas engagée. Face aux périls du moment, l'écologique et le social sont tragiquement liés". -- 4e de couvNoir Canada: pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique
Par Alain Deneault. 2008
"...] En dénonçant de nombreux abus qualifiables de crimes commis par ces sociétés privées, Alain Deneault s'attaque à l'image factice…
répandue sur la scène internationale d'un Canada intrinsèquement pacifiste, bon et généreux. Il recense avec soin et précision les nombreux cas (déjà rapportés ailleurs dans le monde par plusieurs ONG, journalistes, analystes ainsi qu'experts de l'ONU) dans lesquels les sociétés canadiennes se rendent coupables de corruption, de pillage institutionnalisé des ressources minières ou pétrolières des pays africains, et attisent ou maintiennent l'instabilité et les conflits pour obtenir de juteux contrats. [...]" -- 4e de couvTyping and keyboarding for everyone with typing tutor 6 (Typing And Keyboarding For Everyone Ser.)
Par Arco, Nathan Levine. 1998
In this helpful how-to, author Tom Kendrick reveals field-proven principles for navigating high-pressure situations, so you can overcome any obstacle.…
Even with a terrific project management program in place, problems can arise to derail your team's hard work. This book explores a wide range of challenging scenarios and practical solutions and is packed with insightful answers to over 100 of your most urgent project management questions. In 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them, you'll learn how to: keep a project on track despite unavoidable interruptions; how to prevent unreliable outside collaborators from jeopardizing the entire project; how to manage project teams who have little or no project management experience; how to make up for lost time without cutting corners; and how to succeed—even in the face of threatened budget cuts. The last thing you need in the heat of battle is to dive into project management theories. While there's no one right answer to the challenges you face as a project manager, 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them has a plethora of actionable guidelines that help you troubleshoot quickly so you can get back to doing what you do bestMars et Vénus au travail (Petite bibliothèque Payot #169. Voyageurs)
Par John Gray. 2002
Après Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes viennent de Vénus, l'auteur offre ici des conseils pratiques à ceux et…
celles qui veulent travailler en bonne harmonie. En misant sur les différences de réaction selon les sexes, de nombreux aspects délicats de l'interaction au bureau sont abordés: l'écoute, la communication, la gestion des émotions et du stress, l'affirmation de soi, l'instauration de limites, la demande de promotions. [SDMMaterial world: The six raw materials that shape modern civilization
Par Ed Conway. 2023
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and…
greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information—what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"—our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material. In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth—traveling from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan to the eerie green pools where lithium originates. Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground upTo see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces…
and organize it into interdependent tasks...and this book helps you do just that. Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple project teams and thousands of activities, program managers have one of the most challenging jobs in the market. Too many overburdened managers are leaving otherwise great jobs, even the field entirely, because they haven't equipped themselves with the right tools in hand to take on this complex but fulfilling job. Complete with diagrams, graphs, and real-life examples, How to Manage Complex Programs explains the ins and outs of program management and provides concrete and effective techniques for structuring deliverables, workflow, and staffing. You will learn to: Decompose complex deliverables into manageable chunks Develop coherent plans for component projects Handle cross-project dependencies Organize program staff and project leaders into a high-performing team Yes, program management is challenging but the most rewarding jobs always are. Don't let yourself become overburdened and tempted to leave a field in high demand of hard workers such as yourself. These proven strategies are the key to finding both relief and success!I, human: Ai, automation, and the quest to reclaim what makes us unique
Par Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. 2023
Will artificial intelligence improve the way we work and live, or will it alienate us? The choice is ours. What…
will we decide? It's no secret that AI is changing the way we live, work, love, and entertain ourselves. Dating apps are using AI to pick our potential partners. Retailers are using AI to predict our behavior and desires. Rogue actors are using AI to persuade us with Twitter bots and fake news. Companies are using AI to hire us-or not. This is just the beginning. As AI becomes smarter and more humanlike, our societies, our economies, and our humanity will undergo the most dramatic changes we've seen since the Agricultural Revolution. Some of these changes will enhance our species. Others may dehumanize us and make us more machinelike in our interactions with others. It's up to us to adapt and determine how we want to live and work. Are you ready? In I, Human psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic offers a guide for reclaiming ourselves in a world in which most of our decisions will be made for us. To do so, we'll need to double down on what makes us so special-our curiosity, adaptability, and emotional intelligence-while relying on the lost virtues of empathy, humility, and self-control. Filled with big-think fascinations and practical wisdom, I, Human is the book we need to thrive in the futureThe great escape: A true story of forced labor and immigrant dreams in america
Par Saket Soni. 2023
The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—an "eye-opening" "must-read" told…
by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship ( The New York Times Book Review ). In late 2006, Saket Soni, a 28-year-old, Indian-born community organizer received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to $20,000 each to apply for this "opportunity" to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. During a series of clandestine meetings, Soni and the workers devise a bold plan. In The Great Escape, Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape, their march on foot to Washington DC, and their 23-day-hunger strike to bring attention to their cause. Along the way, ICE agents try to deport the men, company officials work to discredit them, and politicians avert their eyes. But none of this shakes the workers' determination to win their dignity and keep their promises to their families. Weaving a deeply personal journey with a riveting tale of 21st-century forced labor, Soni takes us into the hidden lives of the foreign workers the US increasingly relies on for cheap skilled labor to rebuild after climate disasters. The Great Escape is the astonishing story of one of the largest human trafficking cases in modern American history—and the workers' heroic journey for justiceShopify for dummies
Par Paul Waddy. 2023
Launch a successful online store in moments with the help of the most popular ecommerce platform on the planet As…
the platform of choice for over one million businesses in over 175 countries, Shopify powers everything from small local stores to multi-million-dollar ecommerce operations. There's no question you can make it work for you. But how can you get started? In Shopify For Dummies, ecommerce exec, adviser, and speaker Paul Waddy wastes no time showing you how to create and open a thriving online store. You can do it all, from marketing and customer engagement to payments and shipping. The book will help you: - Manage and market your inventory, including how to create collections and upload multiple products and images with a single click - Learn to market to the right people at the right time in the right way, through platforms like Facebook and Google - Discover how to make the most of Shopify's countless and powerful features, like email subscriber collection, tags, payment and currency options, shipping rules, and its in-depth analytics dashboard. - Set shipping prices and rules, and create shipping accounts with Australia Post