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If books didn''t matter, nobody would try to ban them.In a nation struggling to cope with polarization, disinformation, acrimony, the power of books-to inform, enlighten, and inspire-is more important than ever. To honor Joyce Meskis, the legendary bookseller who founded Denver''s Tattered Cover and became a champion of First Amendment freedoms, a team including some of today''s leading publishers, booksellers, authors, and free speech activists offers reflections on the vital role of books in our nation''s cultural, civic, social, and economic life. Why Books Still Matter includes:U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper on bookselling as a mission-driven form of entrepreneurship-a way of nurturing communities and enriching culture while helping city economies flourishFreedom of speech activist Chris Finan on a century of battles against censorship and the crucial role of books and booksellers in defending libertyBook marketing guru Carl Lennertz on how a generation of innovative booksellers transformed the magical process by which authors and readers discover one anotherBookseller Clara Villarosa on creating one of the nation''s greatest Black-owned bookstores-and why representation on the printed page is so important for Americans of every backgroundLibrarians Nick Higgins and Amy Mikel on why they decided to make banned books available to young people from communities across the U.S.-and how they did itCivil liberties attorney Steve Zansberg on a new way to think about the right to free expression and its vital role in a democratic societyBookseller Carole Horne on how independent bookstores from Cambridge to Austin to Salt Lake City pioneered the "buy local" movement, glorifying what makes every city and town unique. . . and other noteworthy figures from the worlds of publishing and bookselling providing unique insights into the glorious past, the embattled present, and the essential future of books. All proceeds will be donated to the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom.

El Manual para el entrenamiento en el tenis está dedicado a un deporte único, que apasiona a millones de personas en todo el mundo, desde jóvenes hasta adultos. Casi ningún otro deporte tiene una complejidad comparable de requisitos. Junto a unas habilidades coordinativas y requisitos previos técnico-tácticos extremos que se les exige a los jugadores de todos los niveles de rendimiento, se suma la necesidad de desarrollar unas capacidades atléticas y mentales especiales. Manual para el entrenamiento en el tenis explica cómo implementar sistemas de entrenamiento contemplando todas las variables que se deben tener en cuenta en la búsqueda del rendimiento para jugadores de tenis. Primero introduce de forma teórica un sin número de aspectos individuales en el campo del entrenamiento del tenis basados en los más recientes conocimientos en las ciencias del deporte y entrega, de forma progresiva, una gran cantidad de ayudas prácticas en forma de juegos, entrenamientos y más de 100 ejercicios. También proporciona información sobre la alimentación, la salud y la recuperación. Un libro imprescindible para los entrenadores de tenis y profesores junto con todos los jugadores comprometidos con su rendimiento.

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A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today''s most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it''s time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken-that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest. Is this a pipe dream'' Not at all. In the last decade, thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus''s vision of a new form of capitalism, launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth. They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh; turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments; financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States; bringing mobility, shelter, and other services to the rural poor in France; and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups. In A World of Three Zeros, Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire. He explains how global companies like McCain, Renault, Essilor, and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups, describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses, and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations. And he invites young people, business and political leaders, and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of.

Das Handbuch für Tennistraining ist die vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage des klassischen Lehrbuchs. In der Theorie werden alle Aspekte im Handlungsfeld des Tennistrainings auf der Grundlage neuester sportwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse vermittelt. Darauf aufbauend werden weit über einhundert Übungs-, Trainings- und Spielformen ansprechend skizziert und durch eindrucksvolle Fotos illustriert. Im Einzelnen werden die Bereiche Leistungssteuerung, Technik-, Taktik- und psychologisch orientiertes Training, der gesamte Bereich des Athletiktrainings sowie im trainingsbegleitenden Umfeld die Themen Gesundheit, Ernährung und Regeneration behandelt. Das Handbuch für Tennistraining richtet sich an alle Tennis- und Athletiktrainer des Deutschen Tennis Bundes (DTB) und des Verbandes Deutscher Tennislehrer (VDT) sowie an Studierende im Fach Sportwissenschaft. Auch den zahlreichen engagierten Freizeit- und Leistungsspielern sowie den Akteuren im engeren Umfeld der Spieler und nicht zuletzt allen Eltern von tennisbegeisterten Kindern kann die Lektüre empfohlen werden.

Ziel des Lehrbuches ist es, dem Leser einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Verfahren zur Vorbereitung mehrkriteriell abgestützter Entscheidungen zu vermitteln. Auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der AHP-Methode (Analytic Hierarchy Process) wird besonders Gewicht gelegt. Diese von T.L. Saaty (University of Pittsburgh) wesentlich geprägte Methode findet in neuerer Zeit weltweit große Beachtung.

Der bildungspolitische Diskurs hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten einen radikalen Paradigmenwechsel erfahren: »Wettbewerb der Bildungsstandorte«, »Effizienzsteigerung«, »Arbeitsmarktfähigkeit «, so lauten die zentralen Schlagworte. Unverändert gilt dagegen, dass Bildungssysteme zur Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten beitragen. Das liberale Versprechen der Chancengleichheit durch Bildung ist längst ersetzt durch ein neues: Eigenverantwortliches, lebenslanges Lernen sichere die Arbeitsmarktfähigkeit. Leistungsmoral und Konkurrenz, aber auch die Angst vor sozialem Abstieg liefern den Nährboden für neue Lern- und Laufbahnbedürfnisse bis hin zum Selbstmarketing. Die Finanzkrise heizt die Dynamik an. Spareinschnitte und Wirtschaftlichkeitsvorgaben setzen auch das öffentliche Bildungswesen dem Markt aus. Dieser entscheidet zunehmend, welche Bildung stattfindet und welche Kompetenzziele verfolgt werden.

The Generosity Network is the essential guide to the art of activating resources of every kind behind any worthy cause. Philanthropist Jeff Walker and fund-raising expert Jennifer McCrea offer a fresh new perspective that can make the toughest challenges of nonprofit management and development less stressful, more rewarding—and even fun. Walker and McCrea show how traditional pre-scripted, money-centered, goal-oriented fund-raising techniques lead to anxiety and failure, while open-spirited, curiosity-driven, person-to-person connections lead to discovery, growth—and often amazing results. Through engrossing personal stories, a wealth of innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, they show nonprofit leaders how to build a community of engaged partners who share a common passion and are eager to provide the resources needed to change the world—not just money, but also time, talents, personal networks, creative thinking, public support, and all the other forms of social capital that often seem scanty yet are really abundant, waiting to be uncovered and mobilized. Highly practical, motivating, and thought provoking, The Generosity Network is designed to energize and empower nonprofit leaders, managers, donors, board members, and other supporters. Whether you help run a multimillion-dollar global nonprofit or raise funds for a local scout troop, PTA, or other community organization, you’ll learn new approaches that will make your work more successful and enjoyable than ever.

In DEMAND: Giving People What They Love Before They Know They Want It (Crown Business; October 2011), Adrian Slywotzky, named by Industry Week one of the world’s six most influential management thinkers, provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications—not just for people in business but also for social activists, governments leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. They all need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why very good ≠ magnetic; how what you don’t see can make or break a product; the art of transforming fence sitters into customers; why there’s no such thing as an average customer; and why real demand comes from a 45-degree angle of improvement (rather than the five degrees most organizations manage).

Just when the world needs it most, a new style of social engagement is emerging: Active Citizenship. A key member of one of New York’s most civic-minded families—one that has supported many of America’s notable institutions and deserving programs—Jonathan Tisch has devoted a lifetime to “active citizenship.” It’s an idea that uses the power of practical creativity and grassroots participation to solve seemingly intractable problems. In Citizen You, Tisch challenges readers to join this movement and points the way toward making our world a better place, one person and one neighborhood at a time. Tisch has filled Citizen You with accounts of people who you’ll meet, such inspirational individuals as: Scott Harrison, who has used the networking and marketing skills he developed as a night club promoter to help over a million people in the developing world get access for the first time to clean, safe drinking water. Steffi Coplan, whose Broadway2Broadway project brought out the hidden musical talents of kids at an inner city school. Eric Schwarz, who decided to do something about America’s under-performing schools, and parlayed a single classroom mentoring project into the nationwide Citizens Schools movement. Chris Swan, who is training a new generation of “citizen engineers” to make sure that the projects they build aren’t just structurally sound but also environmentally and socially sustainable. Dave Nelson, who traded his role as an executive at IBM for a job at a struggling nonprofit that teaches kids about the power of entrepreneurship—and discovered a host of new challenges and rewards in the process. Through these and many other remarkable stories, you’ll learn how today’s active citizens are transforming thinking about social change. Rather than short-term fixes and hand-me-down charity, they’re striving to build sustainable, systemic solutions to our most challenging problems, building and empowering communities rather than fostering dependency. And they’re using a host of new tools, from online networking and private-public partnerships to corporate engagement and social entrepreneurship, to redefine how change can happen. Citizen You is a potent antidote to pessimism. At a time of unprecedented challenges on the national and world stage, when active citizenship is not a choice but a necessity, Citizen You dares us to reshape the social, political, and intellectual structures that have long confined us, and offers fresh thinking that redefines the very concept of activism. For more information and ideas about how to be an active citizen go to www.citizenyou.org

The American public education system is in crisis. Millions of students attend """"failure factories"""" that produce more drop-outs than graduates; millions more attend """"nice"""" schools that mask mediocre achievement. The U.S.''s reading and math scores stagnate and even fall behind, while other countries continue to advance. But many are working to reinvent this system. The film Waiting for Superman, directed by An Inconvenient Truth''s Davis Guggenheim, chronicles these efforts through the interlocking stories of a handful of students and families searching for alternatives, and of reformers proving that all kids can learn. Expanding on the film''s arguments, the book Waiting for Superman explores politically charged topics through a series of essays by thinkers at the leading edge of educational innovation. It shows how failing schools destroy neighborhoods - not the reverse - and how research reveals that dedicated, attentive teachers are what help at-risk kids succeed. With candor, poignancy, and hope, this book encourages those inspired by the film to join the battle to save American education and our children''s future.

Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as ''''more than a terrific movie - it''s an important movie.'''' Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably? Expanding on the film''s themes, the book Food, Inc. will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author shows how entrepreneurial spirit and business smarts can be harnessed to create sustainable businesses that can solve the world''s biggest problems. Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and, with his Grameen Bank, won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, has developed a new dimension for capitalism which he calls "social business." The social business model has been adopted by corporations, entrepreneurs, and social activists across the globe. Its goal is to create self-supporting, viable commercial enterprises that generate economic growth as they produce goods and services to fulfill human needs. In Building Social Business, Yunus shows how social business can be put into practice and explains why it holds the potential to redeem the failed promise of free-market enterprise.

The largest generation in history, the Millennial Generation are independent-- politically, socially, and philosophically-- and they are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world.

Praise for The Power of We "In The Power of We, Jonathan Tisch reminds us again that working together still yields the best results. Jon has spent a lifetime mobilizing people and organizations to get a job done in business and in civic service. His experience, optimism, intelligence, and common sense are reflected in this fresh look at the rewards of partnerships." -President Bill Clinton "The Power of We offers a clear and compelling lesson in how today''s business leaders can create new synergies and gain competitive advantage by learning how to partner successfully." -Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and CEO, American Express Company "Jon Tisch has lived the strategy he describes in The Power of We, and now this extraordinary man and successful leader shares his strategy with us. Building partnerships at all levels-social, intellectual, and political, as well as entrepreneurial-will be one of the keys to progress in the coming decades. Jon Tisch provides a road map for those who grasp that reality." -John Sexton, President, New York University "Being a leader requires vision, focus, and influence. Jonathan Tisch has exhibited all three in this great body of work about what it takes to be a partner and something bigger than yourself. The Power of We is a must read." -Pat Riley, President, the Miami HEAT

When the market doesn''t seem to be growing, you need this guide "for mature companies looking to rejuvenate themselves" in order to keep your business competitive (Publishers Weekly). Though most companies claim to be growth oriented, surprisingly few actually achieve double-digit growth-and over the past 10 years, that percentage has steadily decreased.

Tells how to prepare for the GRE, discusses each portion of the exam, and includes a practice test and lists of the most common vocabulary words and math concepts