Best Selling Books by Alan Robinson

In their much-anticipated sequel to the bestseller Ideas Are Free (over 50,000 copies sold), Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder explain that employee ideas are no longer a "nice-to-have" but rather the very lifeblood of competitiveness, culture, and strategy. Their new book shows how to align every part of the organization around generating and implementing ideas at the front line.

A fresh look at our core values u200b In the twenty years since a group of Brethren in Christ pastors, educators, administrators, and laypeople first met to identify ten core values for the North American church, much has changed—including the continuing decline of the church in the west; dynamic social movements for racial, gender, and economic justice; vast advances in technology, and a worldwide pandemic. With so much happening on both the national and international stages, it seems vital that we as Brethren in Christ prayerfully reflect not only on our core values and their application, but on how those values might help our churches engage a dramatically new social context. Are these values merely sentimental slogans? Or do they constitute compelling convictions, genuine guiding lights orienting us and motivating our mission in a rapidly changing world? The answer to that all-important question depends largely on how we use them. In this forward-looking book, essays from Brethren in Christ pastors and leaders from across the globe call us into the future of the church—to unleash our creative energies, roll up our sleeves, and put these core values to good use.

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

The second edition of "Race and Ethnicity: The United States and the World" continues its legacy as an introductory survey text covering the basic concepts and research of theoretical issues and empirical studies of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and throughout the world. Through state of the art chapters, Dr. Scupin introduces the concepts of race, the fallacies of scientific racism, and theoretical perspectives on ethnicity -- followed by fourteen chapters that detail the empirical findings of anthropologists on race and ethnicity in the U.S. and the world. Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text +MySearchLab (at no additional cost).

Here''s the quickest and most inexpensive way to learn about the pioneering work of Shigeo Shingo, co-creator (with Taiichi Ohno) of just-in-time. It''s an introductory book containing excerpts of five of his classic books as well as an excellent introduction by Professor Robinson.

This book provides an understanding of the complexity and comprehensiveness of the total productive maintenance (TPM) process. It supplements works by Japanese authors with guidance and detail on how the TPM process relates to North American plants or facilities.

A Cop''s Cop is a hard-hitting, fast moving account of Philadelphia''s super-sleuth, Charles Harris. The story begins in the 1920s, when Harris was a flat foot walking his Philly beat, and follows his career as he evolves into the city''s top cop. The beady-eyed, bowler wearing cop built an information highway of snitches, whores and priests to develop a Machiavellian modus operandi years ahead of his time. His personal and professional lives intertwined and the young Harris manipulated the misfortunes of the Great Depression into a substantial real estate empire. The moxie and intimidation tactics he displayed in his youth were replaced with street-smart wisdom and crafty intrepidity in his golden years. The older, more experienced Harris ran a Special Investigation Unit before his retirement and was responsible for solving some of the most renowned crimes of the era. Harris'' personal life was filled with idiosyncrasies, including a peculiar marriage to one of the city''s classiest ''Madams.'' Their union comes to a shocking end when his career is shattered and his love is betrayed. In the end, Charles Harris was a cop''s cop until his final day.

The most comprehensive construction, repair and finishing of vehicle bodies text. Fully covers the underpinning knowledge needed for the Automotive Skills Council vehicle body and paint operations requirements, City and Guilds 3980 Vehicle Body Repair Competence courses and the NVQ and the Progression Awards of both City and Guilds and the Institute of the Motor Industry at levels 2 and 3. Essential reading for all those involved in the trade and insurance assessment, as well as for professional vehicle restorers and DIY enthusiasts working on the restoration or adaptation of classic and modern cars.

Classroom tested with both normal and disabled learners, this structured system was written to help even the most difficult-to-teach students in all grades. Provides sample lessons and worksheets that demonstrate how to tap the inner resources of every student. Helps students categorize information, compare and contrast objects, explain cause-and-effect relationships, describe time-related events, and more. Students learn how to think, read, and write in paragraph units. Over 100 ready-to-use activities.

Shooting the Sleaze is a comic thriller that tingles the spine while tickling the funny-bone. It sets official state agencies at loggerheads with private sector counter-intelligence, each employing its own little band of killers. These frequently fall over each others feet. Meanwhile, someone is killing off reporters of the nations leading tabloid. Odd movements like The Poor Peoples Army and the Last of the Republicans are planning to blow away half of Londons famous landmarks. In addition, the countrys most savage uncaught serial killer, Jack the Stripper, is coming out of retirement with a bayonet and a license to kill. These join a glamorous columnist, a corrupt detective, a porn-loving Prime Minister, a former CIA hitman and many of the great and the good in a mad dance of comic violence that ends in a great bang and quite a bit of whimpering.

In a solar system in a faraway universe, there are three planets that revolve around a huge mega star. Each planet has its own race of people. One race attacks another, which causes the other two peoples to unite and join forces against this evil race. One race has the ability to control the elements to aid in the battle. The prince of this world and the princess of the other fall in love, uniting their worlds into a superior race. All three peoples have their own advanced technology. This story contains the battles of each race: full of action, elemental powers, love, and compassion.

Comprehensive, but using simple language, this book will be of interest to all Christian denominations. The Apostles'' Creed is discussed and explained by devoting a chapter to each article or phrase of the creed. The first chapter, on belief in God, sets the book in a multicultural context. All chapters contain topics for discussion and activities which may be used by church groups.

"This book is concerned primarily with placing before the New Zealand public the results of a survey of the political orientations of New Zealanders conducted immediately after the 1975 general election ..." -- Preface (page 1).

Logic: form and content; Formulas: syntax and intuitive semantics; Boolean analysis of sentences; Infinitive finitary trees and boolean compactness; Semantic analysis of sentences and terms; Logical consequence: sequents and proofs; Logical equivalence: substitutivity and variants; Normal forms of sentences and sequents; Herbrand models and maps; Quad notation for clausal sequents; Unification; Resolution; Resolution on the computer; Historical notes; Appedix; Index.

Conference report on employment policies in developing countries, illustrated by a case study of the constraints on employment creation in India - examines underemployment of rural workers, capital worker ratios, inflation, balance of payments as obstacles to the expansion of employment opportunity; discusses the impact of capital intensive industrialization and agricultural development on poverty, economic planning objectives, etc. References and statistical tables. Conference held in Puna 1983?

GAMMA I is a FORTRAN-compiled program for the IBM 704 Electronic Data-Processing Machine. It embodies a certain general, uniform procedure H of mathematical logic for seeking out a proof of any theorem within any mathematical theory which is given in formal axiomatic form. An extended discussion is provided of the underlying method and of the necessary background of mathematical logic. The program is described in detail.