Most Popular Books by Dennis Nolan

A wordless picture book featuring a sandcastle that takes on a life of its own.

On a warm night, a band of hunters sets out on a journey. As they travel over hills, through thickets of trees, and around mountains, nothing will keep them from their ultimate goal. What that goal is may surprise you. Dennis Nolan's remarkable, imaginative illustrations lead the way in this wordless picture book about an epic journey. A Neal Porter Book

Ridiculed by all but her animal friends, little wingless Fia spends her days on the earth rather than in the sky. But when the boy fairy Kip invites her to attend the May Dance, she saves the day when a wicked troll arrives seeking a late-night snack of fairy wings. Full color.

The letters of the alphabet are introduced by a collection of friendly monsters.

Dinosaurs disappeared completely from the Earth many, many years ago...or did they? An ALA Notable Children's Book A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year! Millions of years ago, dinosaurs roamed the shores of Mesozoic seas. They lay eggs in the shade of ginkgo trees, and as time went on, dinosaurs grew, and grew, and grew. There were so many different species of dinosaurs. Large, monstrous, and fearsome, they ruled the earth. Until gradually, there were no dinosaurs left. But they didn't disappear completely. Some dinosaurs had feathers, which grew and grew...until all through the skies were hundreds of species of birds, which flew and flew. From the bestselling creator of Dinosaur Dream Dennis Nolan comes a poetic nonfiction picture book about how dinosaurs evolved into birds. A Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding Merit An ILA-CBC Children's Choice!

A boy and his dog find a magic dinosaur bone that shows them what life was like among the dinosaurs.

The Pitfalls of Multitasking in Business and Society This fast paced era is characterized by a constant influx of information in the form of Email, Facebook, Twitter Alerts, etc. Our social and professional lives have become so demanding that sometimes multitasking seems like the only solution to the multitude of problems and complications that characterize our lives. However, according to science, this is merely a deception because multitasking does not help us accomplish anything out of the ordinary. I was a so called "multitasker" at one time, until one day I discovered that multitasking really did not exist. I personally found that it was conjured up by industrial gurus and consultants in an effort to increase productivity using less people. Organizations thought it would be better to have one person do several tasks simultaneously. This philosophy led to "downsizing," which was in reality the sacking of several employees, decreased budgets and overall more responsibilities. It worked fairly well for a one-person business and very small business, but could not succeed in major companies and organizations where profit margins increased but productivity and quality decreased. People that were left on the job, after the huge downsizing, simply did have more work to do, thus they had to start what became popularly known as, multitasking . My personal definition of this word is: "the Perception of doing more than two things in one single instance of time." This happened all across the industrial board and quality has definitively suffered. Its overall effects of diminishing quality are yet to surface, but they will! Why You Should Stop According to different scientific studies, we do not possess the ability to carry out different tasks that require a conscious effort on our part. If we engage in two or more conscious activities at the same time then the accuracy and quality of our work will be affected. Therefore, due to our inherent limitations, it is imperative for employers and managers to realize that the multitasking culture that they support is in fact unhealthy for them and the employees, as well as the company or organization. It is important to associate realistic expectations with a person's ability to multi task. This does not mean that we should not engage in multitasking at all; it means that we should be wise about the tasks that we decide to pair. If we are working on a demanding task then we should pair it with a task that does not involve much use of our mental faculties (the routine tasks). However, before going any further and accepting the relevance of multitasking, it is crucial to ask ourselves if multitasking is really the solution to our problems. Benefits of this Book The idea behind this book is not to dismiss the fundamentals of multitasking but to adopt certain strategies to do several tasks, focusing and concentrating on each one separately for the perfect execution of each. If you are spending time worrying and getting stressed out about too many "to-dos" on your list NOT getting done, you should add The Pitfalls of Multitasking in Business and Society" to your reference library now. It is guaranteed to reduce your stress to a comfortable level.

After a brief introduction and History, I will explain the process of using techniques that are easy and traditional, plus I will tell you about the five habits that I developed from my own personal experience that will help you master some simple methods that will allow you to care for your bonsai without constant worry about; too much water, too much light, is the soil ok, does my pretty little tree need fertilize?

Witch Bazooza wants to win the prize for having the scariest house on Halloween, but her spells don't quite turn out as she expects.

Though she is a wingless fairy, Fia does what she can to help her friends the woodkins and proves her worthiness to be Queen when she sets out to rescue two little woodkins.

This is the first single-volume handbook with the information a researcher needs to select the best rheology modifiers for his/her project. Information on 20 different types of rheology modifiers manufactured by 26 companies worldwide is described. These range from Acrylic Polymers to Xanthan Gum. This handbook was written because, in the authors' experience, the selection of a rheology modifier for specific applications is an arduous task. It requires researching the technical literature of numerous suppliers, contacting them for current information and recommendations, and paring the list of candidates from hundreds to a few dozen. This book will enable readers to easily identify the best candidates for an application with a minimum investment of time. The book is divided into four sections. Part I reviews rheology fundamentals. Part II presents details on the products available from the 26 represented companies. Part III focuses on the selection of suitable rheology modifier candidates. Part IV is a formulary containing the contributions of the suppliers.

After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its Jurassic time period

Discusses the history, physical characteristics, and habits of various breeds of chickens.

Sur la plage, une petite fille construit un château de sable. A la tombée de la nuit, la marée monte et les vagues menacent d'engloutir la jolie sculpture. Soudain, une lumière s'allume derrière l'une des fenêtres de la forteresse... Le château est habité ! C'est le début d'incroyables aventures.

In this article, Professor Nolan and Dean Abrams complete their discussion of the history of American labor arbitration up to the present day. In particular, they analyze the critical importance of the War Labor Board in the development of the labor arbitration process as the chosen means for resolving disputes that arise during the terms of collective bargaining agreements.

This article discusses the important factor of seniority which is used in most American workplaces as a measure of employee rights. Labor arbitrators are often asked to read and interpret seniority provisions in collective bargaining agreements to determine whether management has promoted the right person or laid off the wrong person. As “the coin of the industrial realm,” seniority normally defines job preferences, benefit eligibility and benefit calculation. The article analyzes and critiques a series of arbitration cases to determine whether they fulfill the parties' expectations.

The Adventures of Little Porker: Porker Goes on a Diet Porker was the chubbiest and cutest piglet in the litter, and has a very special ability; not only can he talk to all the barnyard animals but he can also talk to most of the insects in the garden. He is very friendly and likes to make friends with everyone he meets and it seems that everyone wants to be Poker's friend too. He eats five times more than his twin brother and is really, really fat. Porker is almost two years old, and finds himself in big trouble because of his weight. Mr. and Mrs. Tom is about to sell him because they can no longer aford to feed him. He must contact all his friends to help him get out of trouble with Mr. and Mrs. Tom. Will Poker be able to lose 173 pounds before his third birthday so he can stay on the farm with his friends? This little adventure book is sure to capture the imagination of little children; it's fun, interesting and will expose your child to early readers' vocabularies. BONUS CHAPTER: Porker speaks Pig Latin when he gets excited or angry. Do you want to learn how to speak and understand Pig Latin too? Porker will teach you in the bonus chapter of this book.

After reading about dinosaurs and then falling asleep, Wilbur sees a baby apatosaurus outside his bedroom and travels backwards through time to return it to its own time period.

Résumé : Written by an engineer for engineers, this book is both training manual and on-going reference, bringing together all the different facets of the complex processes that must be in place to minimize the risk to people, plant and the environment from fires, explosions, vapour releases and oil spills. --

A wizard builds a machine that flies with his head in the clouds and his feet on the ground.

This article continues the joint work of Professors Abrams and Nolan concerning the major issues addressed in labor arbitration. Unionized workplaces often include in their collective bargaining agreements provisions for the payment of premium pay to employees who work in certain situations, such as overtime hours beyond the normal workday or work week or hours worked when employees are called-in to work during non-working hours. The resolution of these disputes requires careful attention to the terms used by parties in their agreements within the context of the basic purposes of such provisions and an understanding of how they generally operate in the workplace.

In this article, Professors Abrams and Nolan analyze the issues that arise under collective bargaining agreements concerning holiday pay. Such benefits are not a management gift, but are rather part of the employees' benefit packages, and thus eligibility requirements should be read very strictly so as not to deny holiday pay except in situations where employees clearly fail to meet eligibility requirements, such as working the full day before and the full day after the scheduled holiday.

The main contribution of this thesis is to use the flexible syntax of Combinatory Categorial Grammar [CCG, Steedman, 2000] as the basis for deriving syntactic constituent labels for target strings in phrase-based systems, providing CCG labels for many target strings that traditional syntactic theories struggle to describe. These CCG labels are used to train novel syntax-based reordering and language models, which efficiently describe translation reordering patterns, as well as assess the grammaticality of target translations. The models are easily incorporated into phrase-based systems with minimal disruption to existing technology and achieve superior automatic metric scores and human evaluation ratings over a strong phrase-based baseline, as well as over syntax-based techniques that do not use CCG.

Introduces big pig, fat bat, pudgie budgie, blimpy chimpy, thick chick, and other overweight members of the animal kingdom.