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Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A lever is one of six simple machines that are designed to make different kinds of work easier. Lifting, pulling, pushing—all these tasks are more efficient when you use a simple machine. In Levers Lessen the Load: Simple Machines for Kids, readers learn how levers and fulcrums can help us move far more weight than we can on our own. Need to lift a heavy rock? Use a lever! Need to push a log out of the way? Use a lever! Know where else you can...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Kids use simple machines every day without realizing it. Teeth are wedges and so are knives, forks, and thumbtacks. Many toys such as slides, which are inclined planes, and seesaws, which are levers, are also simple machines. Two appealing kids and their comical cat introduce levers, wheels, pulleys, inclined planes, and more, and explain how they work. This lively introduction to physics will get kids excited about how simple machines simplify our...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a collection of several of [Sean Covey's] father's best essays that have never appeared in book form before and aren't well known. But they are vintage Stephen Covey and contain some of his best thinking"--Foreword.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture...
12) Simple machines
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The world is filled with machines that make our lives easier. Many of these machines are run by electricity, but you also can use your own power to run machines as well. You power your bicycle you open a door you move a box. Simple machines are devices with very few parts that help us move objects. Learn about the basic simple machines that we use every day.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Delinquent takes readers on a journey from Capital One's headquarters, to street corners in Detroit, to kitchen tables in Sacramento, uncovering the true costs and benefits of consumer credit to American families. In this book, investigative journalist Elena Botella-formerly an industry insider who helped set credit policy at Capital One-uses her unique perspective to reveal the underhanded and often predatory ways that banks induce American borrowers...
Publisher
DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"How Cool Is This?" is a fun-packed compendium of inventions and gizmos ranging from the great and the good to the obscure and offbeat. Each spread features a single brilliant invention, using a colorful graphic approach to explain in an intuitive, visual style how the object works. Full color.
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Professor Coffee's compelling new approach to holding fraudsters to account is indispensable reading for any lawmaker serious about deterring corporate crime." />'Robert Jackson, former Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission /> /> />In the early 2000s, federal enforcement efforts sent white collar criminals at Enron and WorldCom to prison. But since the 2008 financial collapse, this famously hasn't happened. Corporations have been permitted...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace, Mercer's North American Transformation Leader Melissa Swift delivers an eye-opening roadmap to better work that generates wins for companies and employees alike. In the book, you'll explore different ways to improve the growth-impeding, borderline inhumane people management practices we've created and endured over time. You'll also find: 50 strategies to create a powerhouse workplace...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Professor Michael A. Roberto of Bryant University delivers an essential handbook for strategies, concepts, and insights into the dynamics of transformational leadership. These 24 lectures are an in-depth examination of the leadership behaviors and capabilities essential to creating positive change in teams and organizations.
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
""Inc." magazine calls it one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market. Readers agree, saying it's exactly "what I need to know" and calling it a "must-read" for decision makers without expertise in finance. Since its release in 2006, "Financial Intelligence" has become a favorite among managers who need a guided tour through the numbers--helping them to understand not only what the numbers really mean, but also why they matter....
Author
Publisher
Ideapress Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Time is not money. Time is life force. Your time is far more precious than money. It is your presence, your memories, your quality of life. As a business owner, you are already paying a risk and pressure tax. For many, growth fueled by added stress is not worth the trade-off. You have an urge to simplify and streamline instead. Ask yourself: Are you consistently doing the work that you and only you can do? Or are you burdened by busywork, the bottleneck...
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