About this product: In this groundbreaking new book, Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser introduce an innovative approach to identifying and correcting lopsidedness in leaders. You will discover how to make optimal use of your strengths and avoid getting trapped in a one-dimensional mindset that results in too much of a good thing. Based on twenty years of research and extensive work with senior leaders, The Versatile Leader is packed with illustrative cases and practical applications. The book is equally useful for self-improvement and for coaching other managers.
About this product: The Vizsla…field dog, show dog, obedience dog, companion par excellence, and more. Marion Coffman shares insights gleaned from thirty years of experience. Read the intriguing story of how the breed was rescued from Hungary during the Second World War. Learn how to select a correct Vizsla, train him, and care for him. Most of all, share the author’s love and appreciation for this versatile, unique breed.
About this product: The Versatile Border Collie has been the recommended book on the breed for over a decade. In this second edition Larson covers every area of performance and registry organization, presents new herding and training information, hundreds of new photos, and much, much more. Between these pages you’ll find everything a Border Collie owner or fancier wants to know.
About this product: Tofu "Egg Salad"; Caramelized Onion and Tomato Calzone; Pear, Walnut, and Feta Salad--do these treats sound like Weight Watchers fare? You betcha! The recipes in this eclectic and elegant meatless cookbook will help you discover ways to enjoy unfamiliar foods that can add variety to vegetarian meals, including millet, tempeh, and purslane. Weight Watchers Versatile Vegetarian even makes tofu more appealing by explaining tricks such as pressing and freezing it. Icons indicate which recipes are spicy; can be made ahead; cooked in the microwave; in one pot; or are ready in under 30 minutes. If there's a diehard meat-and-potatoes person in the house, add some extra spice or a touch more fat to these recipes and they will please everyone at the table; in fact, the dishes in this book may seduce others who need to lose weight into joining you in a healthful regimen.
About this product: Virtual Machine technology applies the concept of virtualization to an entire machine, circumventing real machine compatibility constraints and hardware resource constraints to enable a higher degree of software portability and flexibility. Virtual machines are rapidly becoming an essential element in computer system design. They provide system security, flexibility, cross-platform compatibility, reliability, and resource efficiency. Designed to solve problems in combining and using major computer system components, virtual machine technologies play a key role in many disciplines, including operating systems, programming languages, and computer architecture. For example, at the process level, virtualizing technologies support dynamic program translation and platform-independent network computing. At the system level, they support multiple operating system environments on the same hardware platform and in servers.
Historically, individual virtual machine techniques have been developed within the specific disciplines that employ them (in some cases they aren't even referred to as "virtual machines"), making it difficult to see their common underlying relationships in a cohesive way. In this text, Smith and Nair take a new approach by examining virtual machines as a unified discipline. Pulling together cross-cutting technologies allows virtual machine implementations to be studied and engineered in a well-structured manner. Topics include instruction set emulation, dynamic program translation and optimization, high level virtual machines (including Java and CLI), and system virtual machines for both single-user systems and servers.
* Examines virtual machine technologies across the disciplines that use them-operating systems, programming languages and computer architecture-defining a new and unified discipline. * Reviewed by principle researchers at Microsoft, HP, and by other industry research groups. * Written by two authors who combine several decades of expertise in computer system research and development, both in academia and industry.
About this product: An invaluable reference for woodworkers, crafters, furniture designers, and home enthusiasts, this comprehensive guide helps readers discover one of our most beautiful natural resources and learn how to use and appreciate this wonderfully versatile material. The Encyclopedia of Wood, New Edition provides an A-to-Z directory featuring more than 150 of the world's most popular woods, with information on growth rate, distribution, key characteristics, working properties, and commercial uses. Each entry includes a detailed color photograph to show the tree's unique grain, pattern, figure, and color, providing a valuable visual resource for selecting timber. An informative introduction explains the anatomy and life cycle of trees as well as the process of producing boards and veneers, and examines essential conservation issues. Perfect for use in a range of applications, this richly illustrated guide is a one-stop resource to the remarkable world of wood.
About this product: Book deals with the care and training of the "Versatile Hunting Dog. A "Versatile" dog is a dog that possess all of the hunting skills and will find, track and retrieve game. Written by very knowledgable authors who are authorities on Versatile dogs. It provides step by step methods to train a "pointing" dog breed and is helpful to the first time owner as well as experienced dog trainer. Book is often recommended by dog breeders and is well known to hunting dog enthusiasts. The contents are straight forward and to the point. In fact the authors state that it is "textbook and meant to train people to train their dogs". Contains 12 chapters and covers Basic Behavior Training, Whoa ( aid to helping dog develop pointing instict), Pointing, Retrieving, Tracking Game, Seaching for Game, and Care of the Versatile Hunting Dog. It does not contain "hunting & super dog" stories. If you are serious about training your Versatile Hunting dog this book can be a great aid.
About this product: Rethinking Acrylic shows readers how to use acrylic paint in a variety of ways. Acrylic can mimic oil paint, watercolor, gouache and encaustic; it can be applied in subtle transparent washes, or troweled as a heavy thick impasto; it can be as transparent as glass or as dense and black as tar. Because of its ever-changing state, the author and contributors are covering the most popular techniques for acrylic, making them accessible to the contemporary artist and crafter thorough a variety of mini-demonstrations followed by full demonstrations that show how to transform those techniques into finished paintings.
Takes an in-depth approach to the most popular techniques with 27 mini-demonstrations and 10 full demonstrations that show how to incorporate the featured techniques into completed paintings.
About this product: Become a diverse and in-demand guitar player by learning guitar parts in a wide variety of styles from rock and reggae to classical and funk, analysis of the styles and recordings of pioneering players, fun techniques such as fingerstyle, palm muting, hammer-ons, pull-offs, and bending, fretboard visualization techniques, and much more!
About this product: An inspiring story of struggle and success.
Peter Pakosh was born to poor immigrants and raised on a remote Canadian farm. This is the story of his dream of making farming easier for his family and farmers everywhere. Today, his Versatile farm machinery company is recognized the world over for its outstanding and dominant product line.
Young Pakosh left the farm to take a job as a draftsman for the farm implement giant Massey Harris in Toronto. Soon Pakosh began designing and producing grain augers and sprayers in the basement of his small Toronto home. By the late 1970s, his Versatile tractors captured a 30% market share of large tractor sales in North America.
Versatile was the first to mass-produce four-wheel-drive tractors and the first to develop the bi-directional tractor (pushing or pulling with equal power). The company has long been a leader on the global agricultural scene and Ford, New Holland and Fiat have all had ownership roles in Versatile. Today this company thrives as Buhler Versatile Inc. and is recognized for its innovation and dependability.
Lavishly illustrated with contemporary and archival photographs, as well as selections from company catalogs from decades past, this book is a must-have for any tractor or farm history buff.
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