Mary Anderson

Oni Bushi

Sixteen-year-old Laura who feels like the family misfit returns early from the family vacation in the Catskill Mountains and pursues her own adventures in New York City.

The Rise & Fall of a Teen-age Wacko

Matilda Investigates

The Three Spirits of Vandermeer Manor (Mostly Ghosts, No 4)

TERROR UNDER/TENT (Mostly Ghosts, No 3)

LEIPZIG VAMPIRE, THE (Mostly Ghosts, No 2)

When Melvin the Talking Cat, famous star of TV commercials, is catnapped, Ben and Katie determine to find him.

The Catnapping Caper

When a mysterious stranger threatens the Hillcrest Academy, Amy uses her psychic powers and the help of her twin brother, Jamie, to solve the mystery.

The Haunting of Hillcrest

Hello Beautiful Nature is used by many people especially student and those who love nature and dogs. It used to write is used to draw, take notes, ideas and write a diary! Pages alternate between blank lines for writing and blank for drawing, blank pages This could be also the perfect gift to your friends ! Perfect size 6 x 9 in 100 pages

Hello Beautiful Nature: High Quality Lined Notebook - 'hello Nature Notebook ' by Mary Anderson : 100 Pages of Lined Paper with Practical To-Do List Section Included,size 6 X 9 In

Hello Beautiful Nature Journal

Luc Zandvliet

A company begins exploration of future operations in a remote and rural area of a poor, but resource-rich country. The communities in this area welcome the company's interest, seeing the prospects for improved social and economic conditions. They look forward to the creation of jobs and other income opportunities, and they look forward to being connected to the outside world through the company.The company, for its part, wants to get it right with local communities. In order to understand the context in which they plan to operate as well as to demonstrate their respect for local mores, managers hire an anthropologist or a non-governmental organization (NGO) to do community surveys. They see these as the first steps for establishing good relations between the company and local communities.Five years later, a visitor to the area sees schools and clinics that the company has built and staffed for the community. He sees upgraded roads and electricity that had not existed before. He sees increased activity in the region, more people and more vehicles, as people have migrated to the area for work. But he hears the company manager complain that he spends far too much time dealing with the community's "never-ending demands" and with "local trouble-makers," and he hears community members complain that "the company has done nothing for us."This book has been written for corporate managers who are responsible for company operations in societies that are poor and politically unstable. Many such managers are frustrated with the situations they face. They try their best to run effective, profitable and beneficial operations that take account of the needs of all their stakeholders, including local surrounding communities. But, even with their best efforts, they encounter community dissatisfaction, unrest, opposition, and delays and, worse yet, threats and violence.In many ways, this book is also written *by* such managers because the information and learning it includes come directly from their day-to-day, grounded field experience. For seven years the authors have spent days and weeks at over 25 sites of companies – including (among others) BP, ChevronTexaco, Barrick, Shell, Total, and Newmont – operating in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and North America, talking with both company staff and local people. They have gathered evidence of how the daily, ongoing operations of companies interact with, affect, and are affected by the societies where they work. They have heard lots of complaints – on both sides. They have seen policies and programs, intended to establish positive relations, backfire and, instead, bring angry demonstrations at the company gate and seemingly endless negotiations and demands. They have also seen operations that are appreciated and supported by local people because of the positive impacts they have had.Both corporations and communities begin their interactions with positive attitudes and expectations, but in a short time tensions between the two rise and negative attitudes can supplant positive ones. In each location where CEP has seen this story play out, there are, of course, variations and details that reflect the specific context and local history. But the regularity and similarity of complaints across so many contexts also show that there are clear, and predictable, patterns in the processes by which company–community relations turn sour.Getting it Right reports, analyzes, and sorts the broad and varied experiences of these many corporations, bringing forward the lessons that can be usefully applied in other settings. The aim is to help corporate managers *get it right* with respect to interactions with local communities, so that they can more efficiently and effectively accomplish their production goals and, at the same time, ensure that local communities are better (rather than worse) off as a result of their presence. The book also addresses what has been learned about how companies can interact, appropriately and positively, with national governments and advocacy NGOs in ways that promote, rather than undermine, the welfare of the citizens of the countries where they operate.The book provides a treasure trove of practical experience against which other managers can analyze their own situations and, using what has been learned by smart colleagues before them, arrive at sound, practical approaches to their daily challenges.Getting it Right will be an indispensable resource for all managers working in community relations or responsible for operations in difficult locations, as well as for students of development studies, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, the extractive industries, and stakeholder management.

Making Corporate-Community Relations Work

Getting it Right

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Enjoy reading these fun, timeless stories out loud with your child. Each story is about a different bird you might fi nd in your backyard, with facts about each bird, and photographs from the author’s backyard. 1. Northern Cardinals fi nd food after a winter storm – yum! 2. A Carolina Chickadee fi nds a new home – cozy! 3. A Mallard Duck mother protects her ducklings from danger – whew! 4. A male Ruby-Throated Hummingbird protects his food source and territory – fi erce! 5. A Blue Jay family fi nds their favorite treat – yeah!

Birds!

My Small Backyard

Fourteen-year-old Jennifer overlooks the consequences and uses an essay written by her older sister as her entry in a school contest that is offering a date with a famous rock star to the winner.

Do You Call that a Dream Date?

Haunted by a recurring nightmare in which she is imprisoned behind a fence and kills her mother, Sarah seeks the help of her friend Josie and is changed by what she learns about her early years and real mother.

Step on a Crack

Whether you're facing fears, an angry friend, or an overwhelmingly busy schedule, these 50 steps for staying calm will help you maintain your composure. You do not have to master all of them. Each small effort is a key to unlocking a healthy, tranquil state of mind and positive, confident outlook.

50 Tips for Staying Calm in Any Situation

Eric Ashby

This book is about an important episode in the social and political history of Britain between 1820 and 1975, namely the awakening of the public conscience about air pollution and the steps taken to achieve clean air.

The Politics of Clean Air

You have chosen the new diet by Dr. Loren Cordain but are you ready to begin your journey on the Paleo Diet? Keep these tips in mind to ease your transition into following the high-protein diet full of wholesome, natural foods that our ancestors ate, while minimizing highly-processed foods.

30 Tips to Succeed with the Paleo Diet

Written by Loren Cordain, The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat, is a best-selling diet book for weight loss, disease prevention, and optimal health. It promotes eating a high-protein diet full of wholesome, natural foods that our ancestors ate, while minimizing highly-processed foods. Here, the key elements of the Paleo Diet.

The Paleo Diet Explained

When Ingvild arrives in New York City from Norway as an exchange student, she shares a room with fifteen-year-old Jennifer who becomes jealous of Ingvild's beauty and popularity at school.

Who Says Nobody's Perfect?

Her father's serious illness and her unrequited love for her chiropractor help sixteen-year-old Amelia develop a greater maturity.

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