Steve Williams

Nancy Williams

An A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence from a company's data assets or data warehouse.

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

More Paperwork

Williams and Phoa

An award-winning, comprehensive book on the innovative uses of paper.

Paperwork

More Paperwork looks at the use of paper in graphic design, and reviews the amazing developments in its application across a wide range of creative fields including architecture, fashion and product. It features interactive chapter openers to create a series of special effects that are designed to be completed by the reader, as well as a comprehensive terms and techniques section. Through the selected work of leading designers around the world, from Amsterdam to New York and Tokyo to Zagreb, this book sets out to demonstrate how the astounding and diverse qualities of paper can be applied. Including an inspirational church by Shigeru Ban, a humorous airmail dress by Hussein Chalayan and an intricate range of packaging by Pentagram, More Paperwork shows that paper can be used to create functional, exciting and innovative designs.

Sadie Hawkmoon, the gritty and enigmatic heroine of Nancy Williams's exciting first novel, never had a simple life. Hawkmoon follows Sadie's journey as she is abducted from the circus as a young child and forced to live on the unforgiving open plains by Ice, a brutal horse thief, and his vicious band of outlaws. Dominated mentally, emotionally, and physically, Sadie is forced to kill and surrender her body as Ice's unwilling lover over the course of several years. At long last, she daringly escapes the clutches of her makeshift family and tries to start her life anew. With the help of a troubled yet charismatic horse trader, Sadie begins to discover what it means to trust and to love, although leaving her nightmarish past behind turns out to be no easy featIce looms like a storm on the horizon, obsessed with getting Hawkmoon back.

Hawkmoon

Grief is universal. Everyone has lost someone they loved and felt the pain and emptiness that comes with such profound loss. After Nancy Williams lost the man she fell in love with as a teenager to a brief, harsh illness, she sought a way to ease the pain of bereavement. She needed strength to move forward with life. Nancy found solace in writing poetry, releasing her emotions through the written word. Now, in A Return From Grief, she will take you through her personal journey of loss and share her emergence from grief into life once again. With honest, genuine emotion, Nancy fills the pages of this book with the lessons she has learned from living through the death of her beloved former husband. She offers solace and comfort to those enduring similar experiences. Join Nancy Williams on her journey to recovery. See how we learn to live with grief, how it lightens, even if it never goes away, and find your own Return from Grief.

Lessons of the Geese

A Return from Grief

Grief is universal. Everyone has lost someone they loved and felt the pain and emptiness that comes with such profound loss. After Nancy Williams lost the man she fell in love with as a teenager to a brief, harsh illness, she sought a way to ease the pain of bereavement. She needed strength to move forward with life. Nancy found solace in writing poetry, releasing her emotions through the written word. Now, in A Return From Grief, she will take you through her personal journey of loss and share her emergence from grief into life once again. With honest, genuine emotion, Nancy fills the pages of this book with the lessons she has learned from living through the death of her beloved former husband. She offers solace and comfort to those enduring similar experiences.

The footsteps of silver kings, grizzled miners and sleek saloon girls faded, but their dark shadows still whisper in the halls and glide silently down the stairs. Heartbroken Dr. Luigi ended his life with a .45 at Silverton's Grand Imperial but still makes his nightly rounds, checking on guests' health. Furious Liz, abandoned by her lover, breaks dishes and throws pots around the Forest Queen's kitchen. The laughter of the Tarabino children echoes through the halls of their home, now the Tarabino Inn. In the silence of the night, pretty Ellar Day screams bloody murder at the Beaumont. Author Nancy Williams revisits the unbridled revelry, scandalous romps and grand gala affairs that characterized the unique hotels where the paranormal persists.

Haunted Hotels of Southern Colorado

"Professional counselor and mom helps parents navigate the changing relationships with their adult children"--Provided by publisher.

Secrets to Parenting Your Adult Child

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence presents an A-to-Z approach for getting the most business intelligence (BI) from a company's data assets or data warehouse. BI is not just a technology or methodology, it is a powerful new management approach that – when done right – can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it. When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver. The missing element was the business-centric focus explained in this book. It shows how you can achieve the promise of BI by connecting it to your organization’s strategic goals, culture, and strengths while correcting your BI weaknesses. It provides a practical, process-oriented guide to achieve the full promise of BI; shows how world-class companies used BI to become leaders in their industries; helps senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can ensure a strong payoff from their BI investments; and identifies the most common mistakes organizations make in implementing BI. The book also includes a helpful glossary of BI terms; a BI readiness assessment for your organization; and Web links and extensive references for more information. A practical, process-oriented book that will help organizations realize the promise of BI Written by Nancy and Steve Williams, veteran consultants and instructors with hands-on, "in the trenches" experience in government and corporate business intelligence applications Will help senior business and IT executives understand the strategic impact of BI and how they can help ensure a strong payoff on BI investments

Fear is our worst enemy. If we let it terrify us, life will not be worth living. In fact, fear is nothing more than the expectation that something bad will happen. The opposite of fear is not courage, but simply the expectation that something good will happen. This is what we have to learnt. This book offers some simple ways to manage fears and live life to the full.

Conquer the Fear of Death

The value and importance of your thoughts are incalculable because your success and happiness depend on them. If you have an attitude that is appropriate to your objective, success is assured. It is essential for every individual to crystalise his or her vision in order to develop his or her own paradigm and path to success. Once you are clear on what you want to do in your life, your success will depend on how well you cultivate, improve or change your views needed to keep you on your target. This book offers some simple tips for self-improvement.

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