Steven Brown Knihy

An 8-year-old girl named Sydney questions the absence of girls in baseball while at a game with her father, leading her to discover the world of softball. Her journey involves hard work, a supportive coach, and quirky teammates as she strives to help the Magical Unicorns win their first game. The story emphasizes themes of determination, teamwork, and the joy of sports, capturing Sydney's quest to prove herself on the field.

This is a substantial new edition of a successful textbook which continues to have a sensible and 'easy to read' style. Each Chapter has a past/present/future theme with a real strategic approach. Strategic Operations Managment shows operations as combining products and services into a complete offer for the customer. Services are therefore seen as key and are integrated throughout the material in each chapter. Manufacturing, service supply and other key factors are all shown to be in place.In an era where companies are fond of talking about core competences but still struggle to understand their operations, this is an important for academics and practitioners alike. Only when managers understand their operations will they be able to leverage them into any sort of capabilities that will lead to competitive advantage. Online tutor resource materials accompany the book.

'Operations policy, practices, performance improvement' is the latest state-of-the-art approach to operations management. It provides new cutting edge input into operations management theory and practice that cannot be found in any other text.Discussing both strategic and tactical inputs it combines and balances service and manufacturing operations.* Cutting edge techniques accompanied by brand new case studies* Challenges standard approaches* Comprehensive coverage of strategic supply management* Critical sample questions to aid discussion* Reading lists and articles to support learning* Additional lecturer support materialThis outstanding author team is from the Operations Management Group at the University of Bath. Their expertise and knowledge is apparent in the text, and they bring to it their original research and experience in the field of operations management.

Prepares leaders for the 2020s--an accessible guide to the key technologies that will reshape business in the coming decade Most businesses identify six key digital technologies--artificial intelligence (AI), distributed ledgers and blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous machines, virtual and augmented reality, and 5G communication--as critical to their relevance and growth over the coming ten years. These new disruptive technologies present significant opportunity for businesses in every industry. The first businesses to understand automation and these transformative technologies will be the ones to reap the greatest rewards in the marketplace. The Innovation Ultimatum helps leaders understand the key technologies poised to reshape business in the next decade and prepare their organizations for technology-enabled change. Using straightforward, jargon-free language, this important resource provides a set of strategic questions every leader will need to ask and answer in order to prepare for the impending changes to the business landscape. Author Steve Brown shares his insights to help leaders take full advantage of the next wave of digital transformation and describes compelling examples of how businesses are already embracing new technologies to optimize operations, create new value, and serve customers in new ways. Written for anyone that wants to understand how automation and new technology will fundamentally restructure business, this book enables readers to: Understand the implications of technology-driven change across industrial sectors Apply important insights to their own business Gain competitive advantage by implementing new technologies Prepare for the future of work and understand the skills needed to thrive in a post-automation economy Adopt critical digital technologies in any organization Providing invaluable cutting-edge content, The Innovation Ultimatum is a much-needed source of guidance and inspiration for business leaders, board members, C-suite executives, and senior managers who need to prepare their businesses for the future

Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation is an introduction to the study of language and applied linguistics for students who have had a minimum of exposure to the discipline of linguistics. Using clear, easy-to-understand explanations and examples, this text avoids the in-depth theoretical coverage found in texts written for those who specialize in linguistics or SLA. As a result, this book is perfect for students whose chosen fields require them to be acquainted with the ways language works--such as future teachers, psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists--but who do not intend to become linguists. The text is also suitable for English or ESL/EFL teachers who need a reference volume about various aspects of language, particularly as it applies to teaching. Each chapter includes research projects and further readings. The third edition of Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation features a new design and reorganization. All content has been significantly revised and updated. Each chapter also debunks a common language myth and now incorporates exercises that, for prior editions, appeared in a supplementary workbook. Extra practice for students is available online, as is additional materials for teachers. (There is no workbook for the third edition.)  

Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at many levels and in many contexts. This volume is the first to address the social ramifications of music’s behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation through commercialization, thus highlighting not only music’s diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile relationship between aesthetics and morality.

Synonymous with terror and destruction, for centuries the Black Hand has struck fear in the still hearts of Camarilla's vampires. What would the members of that august sect give to know the role the Black Hand has played in its own history?The Black Hand is far more powerful than the Camarilla or even the Sabbat suspect, and its role tonight is even more critical than ever. Learn the secrets behind this most secretive of groups.

German train engineer Sebastian Braun saves the life of a wounded imperial army corporal by the name of Adolph Hitler, beginning a decades-long relationship over which Sebastian has little to no control. Sebastian walks a perilous tightrope between a mystically grateful Hitler and a close friendship with a Jewish university professor as the German rise to power stampedes through the 1930s and 1940s. Following up on Volume 1, Tattered Blue Cloth: Volume 2 continues the story of Hitler's devastating impact on the entire global community, as the horrors of war eventually overtake Sebastian and his family with devastating consequences.

Sebastian Braun saves the life of an army corporal in WWI, who happens to be future German dictator Adolph Hitler. So begins a long and complex relationship between the two as Germany and the world is roiled by two successive world wars. This historical fiction follows two German families, one of them Jewish, who struggle to survive the rise of Nazism."Tattered Blue Cloth" examines the historical nuances of the war torn early 20th century. The story follows the individual humans caught up in the turmoil of a world war.