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Georgia

Hiring, Firing, Performance Evaluations, Documentation, Benefits, and Everything Else You Need to Know

Managing people is a tricky business--and managers and small business owners need a clear understanding of the essentials of human resources to survive.

The original edition of The Manager's Guide to HR gives you an introduction to the regulations, rights, and responsibilities related to hiring and firing, benefits, compensation, documentation, performance evaluations, training, and more. However, much has changed since then.

Extensively revised, this second edition covers all the key areas of the original edition and brings you up to speed on current developments in employment law, including:

 * How social media is changing the recruitment landscape
 * Shifting labor standards regarding compensation and benefits
 * The National Labor Relations Board's stance on work-related employee speech on social media
 * The Employee Retirement Income Security Act
 * New record-keeping requirements
 * Amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Featuring step-by-step guidance on everything from COBRA compliance to privacy issues, The Manager's Guide to HR is now once again the most up-to-date, invaluable resource any manager of personnel could have.

The Manager's Guide to HR

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done

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#paperback #ChickenSocks #Home #Elementary #Teachers #Performance #Humor #Homeschool #Theater #English￼￼
Box 17

Texas

And Other Contagious Poems

A collection of humorous poems about school, behavior, learning to ride a bike, and more.

Chicken Socks

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#paperback #nonfiction #achieve #performance #achieveexcellence 

Florida

How to Achieve Remarkable Performance in Anything You Do

The Encore Effect

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Managing employees in today's rapidly evolving workplace can sometimes feel like negotiating a minefield. Such recent new trends as flextime, telecommting, 360-degree feedback, the flattening of hierarchies, and the increased use of temps and contract workers present tough new challenges for supervisors in every field. This timely, completely revised and updated edition of Ferdinand Fournies's classic management coaching "bible" shows you proven ways to get workers to perform at the highest level while eliminating the self-destructive kinds of behaviors that have become increasingly prevalent in recent years.
In this book, you'll be taught specific face-to-face interventions you can use to enhance performance in every kind of workplace situation--from sales to creative brainstorming. There are also interventions uniquely suited to resolving problems ranging from low productivity to absenteeism to conflicts between individuals. You'll learn precisely what to say and do so that each person you supervise will want to give you his or her best work--even when that person was previously thought to be a "problem employee." Packed with brand-new case studies from Fournies's latest research into the dynamics of the modern workplace, this classic guide takes all the guesswork out of becoming the kind of inspired, "hands-on" manager that every company today is looking for!

Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Revised Edition

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Rescued from senseless rebellion and lifeless religion

Grace Works

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Performance, Art and Symbolic Anthropology

In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. Pre-classical Greece, Baroque Italy, and Western postmodernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine.

Foreign Bodies

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#paperback #drama #theatre #theatreeducation #dramateacher #performance

North Carolina

How to Run a Workshop for Theater, Education or Business

Using the experience of the authors in a variety of educational, business and theater settings, this book investigates the connection between practical theater work and drama theory, and its effect on the development and dynamic of any working group.

Dramatic Events

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Michigan

Top Performance 

Keith Knight

Ohio

Art, music, drama/theater

"Ten graphic stories about artists, educators & activists across the U.S."--Cover.

Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts, 2nd Edition

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The author was influential in the dance world. A wealth of information is presented in alphabetical entries including choreographers, composers, plot summaries, designers, terminology, history and original casts. Copyright 1949. Vintage copy with minor wear to boards. Spine is slightly askew. Clean, lightly toned pages with no writing. Previous owner bookplate inside. #dance #arts #performance #nonfiction #hardcover #vintage #music #ballet (Shelf 7B)

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New Jersey

The Dance Encyclopedia 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Wisconsin

Business & Economics

How Healthy People, Culture, and Buildings Lead to High Performance

Discover how healthy buildings, culture, and people lead to high profits

Organizations and employees now spend an average of $18,000 per year per employee for health costs, a 61% increase in 10 years. Every indicator projects these costs will double before 2030. This is an unsustainable path. These costs are the tip to an even bigger iceberg, the hidden costs of time out of the office, distraction, disengagement, and turnover. The Healthy Workplace Nudge explains the findings of research on 100 large organizations that have tackled the problems of employee health costs and disengagement in five fresh ways:

 * Well-being leads to health and high performance
 * Wake up to the fact that 95% of traditional wellness programs fail to improve health or lower costs
 * Behavioral economics has become a new powerful tool to nudge healthy behavior
 * Healthy buildings are now cost effective and produce your strongest ROI to improving health
 * Leaders who develop healthy cultures achieve sustainable high performance and employee wellbeing

In addition to proving highly effective, these approaches represent a fraction of the cost sunk into traditional wellness and engagement programs. The book explains how to create a workplace that is good for people, releases them to what they do best and enjoy most, and produces great and profitable work.

*    Find actionable strategies and tactics you can put into use today

*    Retain happy, productive talent

*    Cut unnecessary spending and boost your bottom line

*    Benefit from real-world research and proven practice

If you're a leader who cares about the health and happiness of your employees, a human resource professional, or a professional who develops, designs, builds, or outfits workplace environments to improve employee health and wellbeing, this is one book you'll want to have on hand.

The Healthy Workplace Nudge

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Illinois

The personal diaries of the noted playwright, screenwriter, and actor offers insight into his evolution as an artist, his conflicted celebrity, and the struggles with depression that culminated in his 2004 suicide.

The Journals of Spalding Gray

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Louisiana

How to Improve Performance, Accountability and Trust with Integrity

Formerly a successful salesman, Jake McKay is now a failing manager. Join him as he races to learn the fundamentals of team and personal effectiveness from his coach before he loses his job ' --- and the woman he loves. Along the way you ' ''ll arm yourself with the tools you need to cut through the daily tangled web of organizational politics and interpersonal issues that hinder performance. You'll learn to: * Use the ' "Integrity Tools ' " to boost performance, trust and personal power; * Hold others accountable without being overbearing; * Evoke sustainable, outstanding performance in teams.

Who Will Do What by When?

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#paperback #queer #performance #identity #politics

Pennsylvania

O Solo Homo is a diverse, definitive, and hugely entertaining collection representing the cutting edge of queer solo performance. The pieces in O Solo Homo touch nerves that run deep -- from sex, politics, community, and health to the struggles and joys of family, friends, and lovers. Peggy Shaw, of Split Britches, revisits how she learned to be butch. The late Ron Vawter, of the Wooster Group, juxtaposes the lives of two very different men who died of AIDS: diva filmmaker Jack Smith and Nixon crony Roy Cohn. Tim Miller, one of the NEA Four, surveys the landscape of gay desire before and after the advent of AIDS. And Carmelita Tropicana, the "National Songbird of Cuba," makes an unforgettable, hilarious return to Havana.

O Solo Homo : The New Queer Performance by David Roman (1998, Trade Paperback)

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The Making of America's First Superhero

This volume traces the arc of the master magician's life from desperate poverty to worldwide legend, initiating the reader along the way into the arcane world of professional magic. It decodes a life based on deception, providing an intimate and riveting portrayal of Houdini, the man and the legend.

The Secret Life of Houdini

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Tennessee

Phrases and Strategies for Painless and Productive PerformanceReviews

Written by two top business trainers, this guide reveals the strategies and language skills needed to make the most of performance appraisals - for both the reviewers and the reviewed. It breaks the process into five simple steps and explains what to say with hundreds of winning phrases organized by topic (and hundreds of counterproductive phrases too). Also included is advice on preparing an agenda, body language, and tone of voice - plus true success and horror stories.

How to Say It Performance Reviews

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Actors on Acting 

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Michelle Branch Songbook

#paperback #Taosports #selfhelp #performance

Colorado

Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life

Written by a sports psychologist and a renowned T'ai Chi master, here is a guide to enriching all of life's pursuits through the practice of its simple mental tools and wisdom. Using stories of success from athletes and businesspeople, the authors present techniques and exercises to promote relaxation and enhance performance.

Thinking Body, Dancing Mind

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Idaho

Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life

A proven system for rallying all of an organizations' employees around a new vision and ideas for making the vision stick When something at work isn't going smoothly, managers struggle with what part of the problem to tackle first. Do they start with cost reduction? Or should they go for process improvements first? The authors—who have helped hundreds of companies and individuals change and improve—say spend time and money adjusting the systems in which people operate, rather than targeting people and their performance directly. The authors show that it's in fact possible to change everything at once—with a focus on making such transformations permanent and repeatable. Brand-new Introduction written for the paperback edition Filled with illustrative examples from Northrup Grumman, BHP-Billiton, Reebok, Harvard Business School, and many others Two experts in the field show how to make major transformations happen The book outlines a process for engaging all employees to buy-in to an improved vision of an organization's new and improved future.

The Three Laws of Performance

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Chloe Johnston

Coya Paz Brownrigg

A Guide to Devised Theater

Featuring the work of: About Face Youth Theatre • Albany Park Theater Project • Barrel of Monkeys • Every house has a door • FEMelanin • 500 Clown • Free Street Theater • Honey Pot Performance • Lookingglass Theater • The Neo-Futurists • The Second City • Southside Ignoramus Quartet • Teatro Luna • Walkabout Theater • Young Fugitives Ensemble-Made Chicago brings together a wide range of Chicago theater companies to share strategies for cocreating performance. Cocreated theater breaks down the traditional roles of writer, director, and performer in favor of a more egalitarian approach in which all participants contribute to the creation of original material. Each chapter offers a short history of a Chicago company, followed by detailed exercises that have been developed and used by that company to build ensemble and generate performances. Companies included range in age from two to fifty years, represent different Chicago neighborhoods, and reflect both the storefront tradition and established cultural institutions. The book pays special attention to the ways the fight for social justice has shaped the development of this aesthetic in Chicago. Assembled from interviews and firsthand observations, Ensemble-Made Chicago is written in a lively and accessible style and will serve as an invaluable guide for students and practitioners alike, as well as an important archive of Chicago’s vibrant ensemble traditions. Readers will find new creative methods to enrich their own practice and push their work in new directions.

Ensemble-Made Chicago

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Hundreds of Ready-To-Use Goals for Any Performance Plan or Review

Set the bar for outstanding performance A follow-up to the top-selling Perfect Phrases for Performance Reviews, this book provides managers with phrases and goals that describe expected future performance from their direct reports. A timesaving job aid for any performance review or plan, the book: Makes it easy for managers to set high performance goals for executives, management, or non-managers employees Includes many categories of goals, from revenue and productivity goals to quality and personal development goals • Facilitates the goal-setting process across the organization Includes a guide to writing a performance plan for any employee Featuring hundreds of ready-to-use performance goals, this practical job aid makes it simple for managers to set the bar for outstanding future results.

Perfect Phrases for Setting Performance Goals

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The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness fuels success, not the other way around. Achor isolates seven practical, actionable principles that show how to capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve performance and maximize potential.

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Getting Things Done

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Chicken Socks

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Who Will Do What by When?

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Actors on Acting

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