As violence in Iraq reaches unnerving levels in 2006, a second front in the war rages at the highest levels of the Bush administration. In his fourth book on President George W. Bush, Bob Woodward takes readers deep inside the tensions, secret debates, unofficial backchannels, distrust and determination within the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department, the intelligence agencies and the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq. With unparalleled intimacy and detail, this gripping account of a president at war describes a period of distress and uncertainty within the U.S. government from 2006 through mid-2008.
This book takes the position that oral language development and reading comprehension strategy instruction can go hand in hand.
By using small groups to provide support, teachers use their knowledge about how language is learned to scaffold instruction as they teach reading comprehension strategies.
This book about small-group strategy instruction gives explicit and concrete ways to teach students reading comprehension strategies as they learn English.
management. Students and working professionals alike can enjoy quick and accessible definitions and the extensive cross-referencing system allows readers broader access to subject areas. This dictionary covers all the topics, issues and terms in the field, including: * Business economics * Consumer behavior * Corporate strategy * Financial management * Human resource management * Information technology * Management accounting * Marketing * Organizational behavior and work psychology.
Blue Ocean Strategy is a business strategy book that promotes a systematic approach "for making the competition irrelevant."
It contains retrospective case studies and suggests theoretical
approaches to creating "blue oceans" of uncontested market space ripe
for growth. The book has sold more than a million copies in its first
year of publication and is being published in 39 languages.
Broadly speaking, success in business comes from effectively executing a strategy to attain a competitive edge. What you are looking for in your application to business school is a competitive edge; the GMAT is, after all, a competition between you and every other B-school candidate in the country. There can be a lot of winners in this competition, but you will be compared to each of them, so you must develop a strategy that will help you attain your competitive edge on this vital aspect of the application process. This book will help you develop two different strategies: first, a strategy of preparation for the days, weeks, or months before you take the test; and second, a strategy of execution for when you walk into the testing center and sit down at the keyboard.
