This bestselling, up-to-date guide shows you how to start your own import/export business, from researching a raw idea to a successful launch to... ongoing, profitable business operations. Complete with real-life examples from importers and exporters, it helps you every step of the way, from targeting a market and preparing a business plan to dealing with foreign currencies, shipping procedures, customs requirements, and more. It also shares tips to help you take advantage of NAFTA and other trade pacts, plus online resources to help you start and grow your business.

A volume in Peace Education Series Editors Edward Brantmeier, James Madison University, Jing Lin, University of Maryland, and Ian Harris, University... of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, To truly move toward a more peaceful society, it is imperative that peace education better address structural and institutional violence. This requires that it be integrated into institutions outside of schools and universities. Doing so will be challenging, as many of these institutions are structured on domination and control, not on partnership and shared power. In particular, U.S. criminal justice, social services and prevention programs, and sport have tended to be dominator-modeled. This book offers analysis and suggestions for overcoming these challenges and for integrating peace education into important social institutions. Creativity will be one of the most useful assets in moving peace education from schools to other institutions. This book argues that with creative visioning, collaboration, and implementation, peace education can be integrated into the most challenging situations and provide hope for holistic changes in our society.

     Compelling, timely, and essential reading for healthcare providers, Meaning in Suffering addresses the multiplicity of meanings suffering... brings to all it touches: patients, families, health workers, and human science professionals. Examining suffering in writing that is both methodologically rigorous and accessible, the contributors preserve first-hand experiences using narrative ethnography, existential hermeneutics, hermeneutic phenomenology, and traditional ethnography. They offer nuanced insights into suffering as a human condition experienced by persons deserving of dignity, empathy, and understanding. Collectively, these essays demonstrate that understanding the suffering of the "other" reveals something vital about the moral courage required to heal—and stay humane—in the face of suffering.  Winner, Nursing Research Category, American Journal of Nursing 

Written in a workbook fashion and designed as a teaching / learning vehicle, Building ASL Interpreting and Translation Skills is for students taking... courses in American Sign Language (levels I, II or III), as well as students enrolled in interpreting programs.  The written English narratives are designed for translation, interpreting and transliterating with over 80 examples on the companion DVD signed by both native Deaf individuals and nationally certified interpreters.   The book is divided into four parts. Part I: The first part of the text consists of 24 chapters that provide readers with an overview of a variety of ASL grammatical features.  Each chapter includes an example glossed into ASL to provide students with a model for translation, each of which are signed on the accompanying DVD, followed by narratives for student practice that gradually increase in length and difficulty.  Part II The second part of the text consists of 20 chapters covering additional grammatical features.  The selections become increasingly longer in length.  Selections in the first several chapters of Part II are also signed by a Deaf individual on the companion DVD.  As the selections become longer, a nationally certified interpreter interprets selected narratives modeling the ASL principle described in the chapter.  Part III: The third part of the text is devoted to exercises that focus on building automaticity when confronting multiple meaning words, idioms, and college level vocabulary.  These selections are longer in length and are designed to provide interpreters with source material that covers a wide variety of topics.   Part IV: The fourth part of the text includes narratives, lectures, and passages from texts that might be read in a high school or college class.   FEATURES OF THIS NEW TEXT:  Part I & Part II include information on ASL grammatical features and provides readers with examples of how to gloss the selections. These examples are also demonstrated on the accompanying DVD as a visual aid to help future interpreters. Readers are taught how to work with multiple meaning words, idioms, and are provided with vocabulary building exerci ses The workbook design allows students opportunity to compare what their written responses to the exercises with what they see on the accompanying DVD. Enclosed DVD allows students to see some of the narratives signed and interpreted and provides students with visual examples and role models of what the ASL principles look in action.

The authors of this text address all the aspects of successful fundraising in a nonprofit environment. Learn how to build the relationships that are... central to successful fundraising activities. Discover how organizational analysis, careful research, development of supporting materials, and knowledge of the possibilities can help a nonprofit increase its funding base significantly. A practical textbook for courses in nonprofit management, the book is an excellent resource for boards of directors, agency directors, and fund development committees. Special Features * Compilation of top motivators * Ethical principles for fundraisers * Sample case statements, goal statements, and forms * Numerous illustrationsAlso available:Effectively Managing Nonprofit Organizations - ISBN 087101369XNew Management in Human Services: 2nd Edition - ISBN 0871012510NASW Press NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad. Known for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.Some of the areas we publish in include:-Social work in the field of aging-Models of social work-Social work with children and adolescents-Ethics in social work-Community organization-Professional development

Building a Successful Construction Company by Patricia W. Atallah is a straightforward, conversational guide that emphasizes how strategic thinking is... essential for starting and running a construction company today.  With over 10 years of experience consulting on construction business practices, Atallah has worked with hundreds of companies and knows the tricks of the trade that continually prove successful.  In Building a Successful Construction Company, the 2.7 million new and experienced contractors in the U.S. alone will welcome a practical, easy-to-read book that lays out the facts needed to get started, provides valuable resources and interactive tools, offers insightful anecdotes from top experts in the field, and helps them incorporate much-needed strategy and structure into their businesses.  Armed with a real appreciation for the challenges that contractors face every day, Atallah has developed practical tools and advisory services aimed at helping contractors avoid the pitfalls and build a solid, stable, and profitable business. And, unlike other books, Building a Successful Construction Company is written to all commercial, institutional and residential contractors.

Ajax is at the heart of the Web 2.0 revolution. It isn't a technology but, rather, is a technique that leverages other technologies and techniques, such... as CSS, XML, DHTML, and XHTML. Many Web designers and programmers would like to incorporate Ajax in their projects because of the amazing functionality it can add to a Web site, but they can't because of the steep learning curve. That's where this book steps in. It makes learning Ajax fun and easy -- a great place to start! Visual QuickProject Guides focus on a single project. In this case the project is creating a business employee directory, like an address book. What's being created is a better, new kind of Web site.

Sales force effectiveness drives every company's success, but keeping a sales organization at the top of its game is a constant challenge. As experts... in the field, Andy Zoltners and Prabha Sinha have helped sales leaders around the world perfect their sales strategy, operations, and execution. Combining strategic insight with pragmatic advice, " Building a Winning Sales Force" provides current and aspiring sales leaders with innovative yet practical solutions to many of the most common issues faced by today's sales organi-za-tions. The book shows readers how to: assess how good their sales force really is - identify sales force improvement opportunities - implement tools and processes that have immediate impact on sales effec-tive-ness - attract and retain the best salespeople - design incen-tive compensation plans - set goals - manage sales perform-ance - motivate the sales force With practical advice and case studies of companies that have conquered even the most challenging obstacles, "Building a Winning Sales Force" will enable every company to drive sales and stay competitive.

While most youth pastors are being regularly evaluated (or even scrutinized) for what they're doing right now in the youth group, the reality is that... the most important thing they are doing won't actually be evident until much later. That's because the biggest challenge for any youth ministry is helping teens embrace a whole-hearted devotion to God that lasts far beyond their years in the youth room. Unfortunately, much of youth ministry seems to be designed on the model of setting teenagers up for a 'date' with God---a delightful evening that involves music, laughter, food, and light conversation. But what scripture calls us to is not a 'one-night stand' with God, but a lifelong love of God that endures. Youth ministry educator and veteran, Duffy Robbins, offers youth workers a blueprint for building that kind of faith in teenagers. In this concise book, ideal for busy youth workers, they'll be equipped to build a youth ministry that instills that lasting faith in its students.

In Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, Robert J. Marzano shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches--sustained... silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary terms--can help overcome the deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the achievement of many children. Readers will learn * The principles that underlie an effective sustained silent reading program * A five-step process for using sustained silent reading to enhance background knowledge * The defining characteristics of effective vocabulary instruction * A six-step process for direct instruction in vocabulary in each discipline * The vocabulary terms critical to students’ success in every academic subject Vignettes suggest how the recommended reading and vocabulary instruction programs might be implemented in elementary schools, middle and junior high schools, and high schools. The book also includes a list of 7,923 vocabulary terms culled from the national standards documents and other publications, organized into 11 subject areas and 4 grade-level categories. With its research-based recommendations and step-by-step approach, Building Background Knowledge equips educators with the tools they need to help close the achievement gap and enable all students to succeed.

Anchored in Biblical truth, spiritual guidance and life experience, this collection of essays covers a wide range of matters: spiritual formation,... pastoral duties, personal restoration and renewal, difficult issues and troublesome people.

Praise for Building Better Boards"Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance... experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation."—Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation"Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful boards."—Marty Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz"This important new book uses concepts gleaned from the collective wisdom of our Blue Ribbon Commission on Board Leadership and adds practical, real-world board examples. The section on crisis management is particularly helpful."—Roger W. Raber, president and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors"This book provides a comprehensive review and effective guide to making any board an effective team, and thus an asset, for their company."—Richard H. Koppes of Counsel, Jones Day, and former general counsel, CalPERS"A balanced, insightful, thoughtful, and, above all, useful look at what can be done to create excellent boards."—Edward E. Lawler III, director, Center for Effective Organizations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California"Improving board effectiveness is easier said than done. Building Better Boards lays out the how-tos in a clear and compelling way that is of practical value for directors and CEOs alike."—Kenneth W. Freeman, former chairman and CEO, Quest Diagnostics Inc.

Learn to write clear and concise essays with this easy, step by step text. Your writing skills and confidence will build from chapter to chapter as you... become a better writer. The book is inexpensive and has everything you need to know!

The Building Better series evolved with developmental students in mind; however, the textbooks are designed to be inexpensive and flexible enough that... all college students or writing instructors can use them as a quick reference guide.