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Wordly Wise 3000 Book 4
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams Erika Hodkinson<p>You've been learning words since you were a tiny baby. At first, you learned them only by hearing other people talk. Now that you are a reader, you have another way to learn words. Obviously, it's important to know what words mean, but lots of times, we think we can get away without knowing some of them as we read. This could cause a problem. Say you are reading the directions for a new game. You know most of the words in the sentence you're reading. Then you stop for a word you don't recognize: Please do not touch the blegmy or your score will be lost. You ask yourself, "What is a blegmy?" At first you think, "Well, it's only one word." But then you think, "What is it that I'm not supposed to touch?" All of a sudden, knowing what that one word means is important! <p>Clearly, the more words you know, the better your understanding of everything you read. Wordly Wise 3000 will help you learn a lot of words, but it can't teach you all the words you'll ever need. It can, however, help guide your learning of new words on your own.</p>
Wordpress Web Application Development - Third Edition
by Rakhitha Nimesh RatnayakeLearn in easy stages how to rapidly build leading-edge web applications from scratch. About This Book • Develop powerful web applications rapidly with WordPress • Explore the significant features and improvements introduced in WordPress 4.7 by learning the numerous tips and techniques in this book. • Unleash the power of REST API endpoints to make your interaction with websites new and innovative. Who This Book Is For This book is targeted at WordPress developers and designers who want to develop quality web applications within a limited time frame and maximize their profits. A prior knowledge of basic web development and design is assumed. What You Will Learn • Develop extendable plugins with the use of WordPress features in core modules • Develop pluggable modules to extend the core features of WordPress as independent modules • Manage permissions for a wide range of content types in web applications based on different user types • Follow WordPress coding standards to develop reusable and maintainable code • Build and customize themes beyond conventional web layouts • Explore the power of core database tables and understand the limitations when designing database tables for large applications • Integrate open source modules into WordPress applications to keep up with the latest open source technologies • Customize the WordPress admin section and themes to create the look and feel of a typical web application In Detail WordPress is one of the most rapidly expanding markets on the Web. Learning how to build complex and scalable web applications will give you the ability and knowledge to step into the future of WordPress. WordPress 4.7 introduces some exciting new improvements and several bug fixes, which further improve the entire development process.This book is a practical, scenario-based guide to expanding the power of the WordPress core modules to develop modular and maintainable real-world applications from scratch. This book consistently emphasizes adapting WordPress features into web applications. It will walk you through the advanced usages of existing features such as access controlling; database handling; custom post types; pluggable plugins; content restrictions; routing; translation; caching; and many more, while you build the backend of a forum management application. This book begins by explaining how to plan the development of a web application using WordPress' core features. Once the core features are explained, you will learn how to build an application by extending them through custom plugin development. Finally, you will explore advanced non-functional features and application integration. After reading this book, you will have the ability to develop powerful web applications rapidly within limited time frames. Style and approach An extensive, practical guide that explains how to adapt WordPress features, both conventional and trending, for web applications.
Wordpress Websites for Business: How Anyone Can Maximize Website Performance and Results
by Michael CordovaA website development pioneer gives business owners—from tech savvy to beginner—the tools, knowledge, and tactics to succeed in today’s online economy.If your company is building a new website, you’re certainly thinking about content and design. But don’t forget performance, especially if you need your website to generate business leads and sales. Wordpress Websites for Business guides you through the process of building a website that will sustain and grow your company. Using the techniques detailed in this book I am currently bringing in more than one million dollars’ worth of leads a month for one of my clients.I have used most of the top content management systems and built many custom CMS systems myself. From my experience, I can say that Wordpress is the most effective tool available to build your company’s website and bring in leads and sales for your business. However, if used incorrectly, it can actually hurt your company. I’ve seen it happen, and the effects can be devastating. The good news is that there’s a better way. In an easy-to-follow, step-by-step program, this book will tell you what you need to do to avoid the pitfalls while ensuring maximum exposure, search engine rankings, and conversions (sales)!This powerful book features: game changing checklists and resources; simple settings that only take a few minutes, but can make a huge difference in website performance; the best Wordpress plugins and services to optimize your site and maximize leads; the best Wordpress themes that enable you to build an up-to-date website that performs for you; content creation hacks such as how to map your business goals directly to your content; Wordpress best practices simplified, such as why and how to create a child theme; the tools and techniques that drop your page load times to less than two seconds; and much more . . .The strategies and tactics I present in Wordpress Websites for Business will result in more leads and sales for your company, and that’s what it’s all about.
Words That Win: How to win the debates that matter
by Lewis IwuAn insider's guide for students and teachers on how to debate, ranging from how to deliver speeches confidently in a large room to how to respond to arguments effectively. The final section of the book will argue why this activity is important for every child to take part - for social mobility, democratic and economic reasons. Throughout the book, Lewis (a former world university debating champion and a world championship winning coach with England) will draw from examples from his 10 years of experience coaching debates in over 11 countries
Words That Win: How to win the debates that matter
by Lewis IwuAn insider's guide for students and teachers on how to debate, ranging from how to deliver speeches confidently in a large room to how to respond to arguments effectively. The final section of the book will argue why this activity is important for every child to take part - for social mobility, democratic and economic reasons. Throughout the book, Lewis (a former world university debating champion and a world championship winning coach with England) will draw from examples from his 10 years of experience coaching debates in over 11 countries
Words That Work In Business: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace
by Ike LasaterAddressing the most common workplace relationship challenges, this manual shows how to use the principles of nonviolent communication to improve the workplace atmosphere. Offering practical tools that match recognizable work scenarios, this guide can help all employees positively affect their work relationships and company culture, regardless of their position. This handbook displays proven communication skills for effectively handling difficult conversations, reducing workplace conflict and stress, improving individual and team productivity, having more effective meetings, and giving and receiving meaningful feedback, thereby creating a more enjoyable work environment.
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
by Frank LuntzDr. Frank Luntz, adviser to politicians, CEO's and the like, shows you how to make words work for you so you can get more out of life, and also how to avoid making mistakes when asking for something from someone. You'll learn how to make reservations in a restaurant, or to get someone to really listen to what you say. There's more and you will learn a lot from his words.
Words Were Originally Magic
by Steve De ShazerIn explicating how language works in therapy, De Shazer ranges widely, citing and critiquing Lacan, Bateson, Ackerman, and Weakland, among others. But the heart of this book can be found in the detailed conversations between client and therapist that show solution-focused therapy in action.
Words at Work in Vanity Fair
by Martha BantaBanta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society.
Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon
by Carol Gluck Anna Lowenhaupt TsingOn the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity. Such words as security in Brazil, responsibility in Japan, community in Thailand, and hijāb in France changed the societies in which they moved even as the words were changed by them. Some words threatened to launch wars, as injury did in imperial Britain's relations with China in the nineteenth century. Others, such as secularism, worked in silence to agitate for political change in twentieth-century Morocco. Words imposed or imported from abroad could be transformed by those who wielded them to oppose the very powers that first introduced them, as happened in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Taken together, this selection of fourteen essays reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of "words in motion. " Contributors. Mona Abaza, Itty Abraham, Partha Chatterjee, Carol Gluck, Huri Islamoglu, Claudia Koonz, Lydia H. Liu, Driss Maghraoui, Vicente L. Rafael, Craig J. Reynolds, Seteney Shami, Alan Tansman, Kasian Tejapira, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Words to the Wives: The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity (New Directions in Book History)
by Shelby ShapiroThis book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapiro focuses on two women’s magazines and the women’s pages in three daily newspapers, from 1913, when the first Yiddish women’s magazine appeared, until 1925, when the Immigration Act of 1924 took effect. Shapiro demonstrates how newspaper editors and publishers sought to shape identity in line with their own religious or political tendencies in this new environment, where immigrants faced a broad horizon of possibilities for shaping or reshaping their identities in the face of new possibilities and constraints. External constraints included the economic situation of the immigrants, varying degrees of antisemitism within American society, while internal constraints included the variable power of traditions and beliefs brought with them from the Old World. Words to the Wives studies how publications sought to shape the direction of Eastern European Jewish immigrant women's acculturation.
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
by Amanda Montell“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met CassidyA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean “a female canine,” bitch didn’t refer to women at all—it originated as a gender-neutral word for “genitalia.” A perfectly innocuous word devolving into an insult directed at females is the case for tons more terms, including hussy, which simply meant “housewife”; and slut, which meant “an untidy person” and was also used to describe men. These are just a few of history’s many English slurs hurled at women.Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language—from insults, cursing, gossip, and catcalling to grammar and pronunciation patterns—to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women and other marginalized genders from power. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women speak with vocal fry or use like as filler? Or why certain gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how women and men speak come from in the first place?Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore these questions—and how we can use the answers to affect real social change. Her irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but downright hilarious and profound. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light on the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.
Work Jerks: How to Cope with Difficult Bosses and Colleagues
by Louise CarnachanIf you&’re stressed and unhappy because of problems with a boss or colleague, you pay a price. Not only can your mental and physical health suffer, your nearest and dearest get sick of hearing about it. Going to bed angry and waking up only to dread a new workday is a terrible way to live.Remote work may have lessened the impact of annoying colleagues for a while, but they can still find ways to irritate. If you&’re co-located, the &“mute&” and &“stop video&” buttons don&’t exist to diminish your exasperation. Not all jerks are the same; the person you find to be a nightmare may be perfectly acceptable to others. And, astonishingly, someone else may even think you&’re the jerk!Author Louise Carnachan has the credentials and experience to make her an expert in this area, but more importantly, she&’s been in the trenches herself. With an emphasis on the positive actions you can take while being attentive to your specific situation, Work Jerks provides practical advice on how to deal with a variety of problematic coworkers—whether in-person or remotely—so work can stop being something you dread and start being something you enjoy.
Work Pressures: New Agendas in Communication (New Agendas in Communication Series)
by Dawna Ballard Matthew McGloneWork Pressures fills the void of research on the nature of pressures on individuals in the workplace. It offers a broad view of how work pressures can compromise the performance and vitality of individuals and their organizations. The contributions to this volume not only confirm communication’s centrality to the problems work pressures pose, but also open an interdisciplinary conversation about how to learn from and, ultimately, manage them. Specific topics covered include the proliferation of communication technologies, organizational discourse, work overload, and generational differences in the workplace.
Work Remotely (Penguin Business Experts Series)
by Martin Worner Anastasia TohméRemote working makes us happier, more productive and more profitable, but it can bring its own set of challenges. How do we manage our work-life balance; communicate and collaborate effectively as teams; and ensure our technology is efficient?In Work Remotely, Penguin Business Experts Anastasia Tohmé and Martin Worner explain everything you need to know:- Set your own targets and monitor productivity- Establish boundaries between working hours and free time- Manage effective communication and decision-making at a distanceIncluding case studies from the companies around the world who are innovating and revolutionizing the way we work, Work Remotely shares useful advice and practical tips to ensure you get the most out of working away from the office environment.
Work Smart Now: How to Jump Start Productivity, Empower Employees, and Achieve More
by Richard PolakFrom one of the top HR specialists in the world comes this much-needed guide to help people maximize productivity and increase revenue. Whether it&’s in corporate America or in our own living rooms, people are wasting time. From the minute we wake up and check our Facebook page or emails—before we even crawl out of bed—to late at night when we stay up longer than we should, watching our favorite show. There&’s a precise moment that falls between working enough hours to be productive and working too many hours, yielding a diminishing marginal return. The difference between the person able to master this and most Americans that fail miserably at it is quality of life! If one continues to work past this moment, a negative return will ensue, and that negative return produces guilt. It lowers the amount of time for recreational activities and spending time with family. We&’ve siloed productivity to our work life, however; the impact on our personal life is often loss. An alarming 39% of workers in high-tech companies believe they are depressed, as reported by PC Magazine in December 2018. 72% of people who have daily stress and anxiety say it interferes with their lives—anxiety and stress alone have reduced productivity by 56%. More than 80% of people have experienced some form of anxiety, stress, or depression in the workplace. People are spending more time at work than at home or with their loved ones; or, if they are at home, they are working. They are always &“on.&” As a result of this disparity, people are not fully living their lives. And the &“work-life balance&” marketed by some HR consulting firms and employers simply does not work. It&’s all work and no life! Studies have also proven that when people are unhappy in their personal lives or careers, their productivity goes down and everything and everyone around them suffers. This causes a domino effect, which trickles into every area of their lives. Previous generations used to say, &“Work harder,&” but we&’ve now learned we must &“work smarter.&” Polak has practiced and tested his methods in hundreds of opportunities and has been paid millions by the largest corporations in the world to share these tools. He feels that every individual and business should have these tools, and will share them with us here.
Work Smarter with LinkedIn
by Alexandra SamuelIf you think LinkedIn is just for job hunting, you're missing out on the many ways you can take advantage of this social network to build the professional relationships you need to advance in your career. LinkedIn can help you initiate, strengthen, and use the very real human connections that make you effective on the job-and help you get ahead. This short, practical book shows you how.In Work Smarter with LinkedIn, social media expert Alexandra Samuel demonstrates the most effective ways to actively build and use your network, sharing tips and tricks on: Deciding which connection invitations to accept Searching for potential connections when you need to establish a new contact Using business travel to make the most of face time with colleagues and contacts Capturing all the connections you've made at a conference When not to use LinkedInThe book also includes a 30-minute quick guide to starting-or perfecting-your LinkedIn profile.Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work-and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.
Work Smarter with Social Media
by Alexandra SamuelFrom managing email to building a social media presence, making smart use of technology is essential to professional success in a digital world. But using all these tools can quickly lead to digital overload. In this comprehensive guide from social media expert Alexandra Samuel, you'll find out how to use the social web to achieve your professional goals-without letting it overwhelm you.Find out what social media power users do to: Tame the email backlog and focus on the messages that matter most Build professional relationships that advance your career using Twitter and LinkedIn Increase your professional visibility online by using HootSuite to schedule social media updates Keep your most important work front-and-center with a digital notetaking system Integrate these tools to get the most out of each one, and make them even more powerful together
Work Smarter with Twitter and HootSuite
by Alexandra SamuelYou're on Twitter but can't keep up with the onslaught of incoming messages. You're also not sure how to extract value from this social media phenomenon-especially as a professional tool.In Work Smarter with Twitter and HootSuite, social media expert Alexandra Samuel helps you take Twitter to the next level by using the free tool HootSuite, which allows you to focus on the people whose tweets matter to you and easily establish the relationships and presence you want.This short, practical book shows you the most effective ways to use this popular system to: Focus on the people and relationships that are the most important to you professionally Set up your own "relationship dashboard" to track tweets that matter Keep your incoming Twitter stream free of clutter Tweet the right messages at the right time-and even schedule your tweets in advanceThis ebook also includes a 30-minute quick guide to setting up your complete Twitter and HootSuite system for maximum ease of use.Interested in learning more about how social media can help you get ahead of your daily work-and get ahead in your career? Look for more in this series of short, digital books from Harvard Business Review Press and social media expert Alexandra Samuel. Other installments provide the best tips and tricks for using tools like Evernote, Twitter, HootSuite, and Gmail to get organized and improve your performance on the job.
Work Together Anywhere: A Handbook on Working Remotely -Successfully- for Individuals, Teams, and Managers
by Lisette Sutherland Kirsten Janene-Nelson“An excellent guide on how teams can effectively work together, regardless of location.” —STEPHANE KASRIEL, former CEO of Upwork IN TODAY’S MODERN GLOBAL ECONOMY, companies and organizations in all sectors are embracing the game-changing benefits of the remote workplace. Managers benefit by saving money and resources and by having access to talent outside their zip codes, while employees enjoy greater job opportunities, productivity, independence, and work-life satisfaction. But in this new digital arena, companies need a plan for supporting efficiency and fostering streamlined, engaging teamwork. In Work Together Anywhere, Lisette Sutherland, an international champion of virtual-team strategies, offers a complete blueprint for optimizing team success by supporting every member of every team, including: • Employees advocating for work-from-home options • Managers seeking to maximize productivity and profitability • Teams collaborating over complex projects and long-term goals • Organizations reliant on sharing confidential documents and data • Company owners striving to save money and attract the best brainpower Packed with hands-on materials and actionable advice for cultivating agility, camaraderie, and collaboration, Work Together Anywhere is a thorough and inspiring must-have guide for getting ahead in today’s remote-working world.
Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History
by Paul EggertBy the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed aesthetic objecthood. Concurrently, the advent of digital scholarly editions is recasting the editorial endeavour. The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies tests its argument against a range of book-historically inflected case-studies from Hamlet editions to Romantic poetry archives to the writing practices of Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. It newly justifies the practice of close reading in the digital age.
Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK (Creative Working Lives)
by Christina WilliamsWork of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK explores the lived experiences of fiction writers in the UK and how they make a living. Based on a substantial body of interviews with a range of fiction writers, it considers the ways that writers think about and talk about writing as work and how ‘discourses of writing’ operate to support or undermine them as cultural workers. It argues that discourses of love, luck, magic, and ‘being a writer’ function in complex ways to position writers in enchanted and elevated spaces which both nurture their practice and undermine their status as remunerated workers in the creative sector. The book shows how the positives and negatives of often precarious cultural work are played out for fiction writers. It has implications for writers in the ways that they think about and talk about themselves as workers, and how the publishing industry values their contributions.
Work with Me: How to get people to buy into your ideas
by Simon DowlingLead from any level with the power of buy-in Work with Me shows you how to master the art of the 'buy-in.' You achieve better results when people go along with your ideas because they want to, not because they have to; the key is knowing how to build that kind of commitment This is the art of buy-in, and it's one of the most powerful skills you can have. When people are fully on board, they bring their full selves to the project. This drives their priorities, their performance, their innovation and ultimately, your outcome. Buy-in sits at the heart of creative and collaborative cultures; it drives highly adaptive and nimble teams. This book is a how-to guide for achieving buy-in, regardless of your leadership level. It's not about using power and authority, it's about building support and commitment to your ideas and initiatives. You can lead from any level, even laterally, and have a positive impact on the way things are done in your organisation. This book is your coach for speaking up, standing out and embracing the changes that fuel engaged workplaces and better business. Build engagement, agreement, commitment and ownership Overcome obstacles and drive stellar performance Deliver optimal outcomes through enthusiastic collaboration Boost creativity, passion, energy and focus In the shift from traditional industrial economies to a value-focused economy of ideas, organisations thrive on great ideas, but those ideas don't count unless they're actually implemented. Work with Me shows you how to get people on board so you can bring great ideas to life.
Workgroups eAssessment: Planning, Implementing and Analysing Frameworks (Intelligent Systems Reference Library #199)
by Nilanjan Dey Amira S. Ashour Rosalina BaboThis book was developed during a particular pandemic situation in the whole world which confined people to their homes. Therefore, there was a rise in the use of distance working and learning (e-learning) which led to a very quick adoption of technology in order to guarantee different approaches to fulfil the same or better outcomes and ensure that people are connected. This book provides a better understanding about the importance of teams' assessment and collaborative work, as well as the use of collaboration tools and online assessment techniques supported by technology. Consequently, the book is aimed at all institutions that seek new working environments, namely higher education institutions, companies and organizations, sports teams, and others. Furthermore, this book provides new approaches and systems to carry the knowledge and learning assessment. The book gathers knowledge from several authors, related to collaboration environments and tools, as well as their insights on how technology can be applied to carry assessment processes. The book seeks to provide knowledge on new technologies and different learning environments.
Working
by Larry J. BaileyThis revision of Working: Career Success for the 21st Century introduces high school seniors and community college students to career planning, working, money management, and essential skills for independent living. Learning features include chapter summaries, activities, and vocabulary exercises, plus boxes on high growth occupations, math connections, and career decision making. This edition spans the entire life/work cycle, and material reflecting the Department of Education's 16 career clusters has been added. Bailey is affiliated with the Department of Workforce Education and Development. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)