Title:
Outdoor kitchens : a do-it-yourself guide to design and construction / ]editor, Ken Sidey ; writer, Bill LaHay]. Title appears on item as: Better homes and gardens outdoor kitchens
Better homes and gardens outdoor kitchens Title appears on item as: Better homes and gardens outdoor kitchens
Author:
LaHay, Bill. author.
Sidey, Ken. editor.
Better Homes and Gardens Books (Firm).
General Notes:
Includes resource guide and index(page 172-174).
Assessing Your Needs -- A Table for How Many? -- Writing Your Menu -- What About the Weather? -- Planning Your Kitchen -- Creating a Layout -- Judging the Terrain and Climate -- Principles of Kitchen Design -- Your Design Process -- Product Guide -- Working with Contractors -- Design Gallery -- Fiesta Colors -- Family Oasis -- Classical Gas -- Hideaway Haven -- Heat Is On -- Grand Islands -- Under Cover -- Staying Connected -- Kitchens You Can Build -- Classic Brick Courtyard -- Under the Big Top -- Rock Solid -- Fire and Shelter -- Poolside Dining -- Dining Center Stage -- All the Angles -- Out in the Woods -- Gimme Shelter -- A Basic Built-in -- Construction Basics -- Working with Concrete -- Brick Paver Patios -- Building Concrete Block Walls -- Adding Brick or Stone Veneer -- Building Brick Walls -- Working with Ceramic Tile -- Deck-Building Basics -- Framing with Wood -- Framing with Metal -- Utility Connections -- Enjoying Your Kitchen -- Care and Maintenance -- Cooking in Your Outdoor Kitchen -- All-Time Favorite Grilling Recipes.
Publisher:
Meredith Books,
Publication Place:
Des Moines, IA :
ISBN:
0696217562 :
9780696217562
Subject:
Barbecues (Fireplaces) -- Design and construction.
Outdoor cooking -- Design and construction.
Garden ornaments and furniture -- Design and construction.
Barbecues (Fireplaces) -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
Outdoor kitchens -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
Garden ornaments and furniture -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
Assessing Your Needs -- A Table for How Many? -- Writing Your Menu -- What About the Weather? -- Planning Your Kitchen -- Creating a Layout -- Judging the Terrain and Climate -- Principles of Kitchen Design -- Your Design Process -- Product Guide -- Working with Contractors -- Design Gallery -- Fiesta Colors -- Family Oasis -- Classical Gas -- Hideaway Haven -- Heat Is On -- Grand Islands -- Under Cover -- Staying Connected -- Kitchens You Can Build -- Classic Brick Courtyard -- Under the Big Top -- Rock Solid -- Fire and Shelter -- Poolside Dining -- Dining Center Stage -- All the Angles -- Out in the Woods -- Gimme Shelter -- A Basic Built-in -- Construction Basics -- Working with Concrete -- Brick Paver Patios -- Building Concrete Block Walls -- Adding Brick or Stone Veneer -- Building Brick Walls -- Working with Ceramic Tile -- Deck-Building Basics -- Framing with Wood -- Framing with Metal -- Utility Connections -- Enjoying Your Kitchen -- Care and Maintenance -- Cooking in Your Outdoor Kitchen -- All-Time Favorite Grilling Recipes.
Physical Description:
175 page : col. ill., plans ;
Publication Date:
c2004.
Title:
Better living through economics edited by John J. Siegfried.
Author:
Siegfried, John J.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview : highlights of the benefits of basic science in economics / Charles R. Plott -- The evolution of emissions trading / Thomas H. Tietenberg -- Better living through improved price indexes / Michael J. Boskin / Economics and the earned income tax credit / Robert A. Moffitt -- Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries / Anne O. Krueger -- The role of economics in the welfare-to-work reforms of the 1990s / Rebecca M. Blank -- Better living through monetary economics / John B. Taylor -- The greatest auction in history / R. Preston McAfee, John McMillan, Simon Wilkie -- Air-transportation deregulation / Elizabeth E. Bailey -- Deferred-acceptance algorithms : history, theory, practice / Alvin E. Roth -- Economics, economists, and antitrust : a tale of growing influence / Lawrence J. White -- Economics and the all-volunteer military force / Beth J. Asch, James C. Miller III, John T. Warner -- Public policy and saving for retirement : the autosave features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 / John Beshears ... [et.al].
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Harvard University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge, Mass. :
ISBN:
9780674036185
0674036182
Subject:
Economics -- Research.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Overview : highlights of the benefits of basic science in economics / Charles R. Plott -- The evolution of emissions trading / Thomas H. Tietenberg -- Better living through improved price indexes / Michael J. Boskin / Economics and the earned income tax credit / Robert A. Moffitt -- Trade liberalization and growth in developing countries / Anne O. Krueger -- The role of economics in the welfare-to-work reforms of the 1990s / Rebecca M. Blank -- Better living through monetary economics / John B. Taylor -- The greatest auction in history / R. Preston McAfee, John McMillan, Simon Wilkie -- Air-transportation deregulation / Elizabeth E. Bailey -- Deferred-acceptance algorithms : history, theory, practice / Alvin E. Roth -- Economics, economists, and antitrust : a tale of growing influence / Lawrence J. White -- Economics and the all-volunteer military force / Beth J. Asch, James C. Miller III, John T. Warner -- Public policy and saving for retirement : the autosave features of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 / John Beshears ... [et.al].
Physical Description:
vi, 315 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
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Publication Date:
2010.
Title:
Better mental health care / by Graham Thornicroft and Michele Tansella.
Author:
Thornicroft, Graham.
Tansella, Michele.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginning the journey : mapping the route -- Mental health of the population and care in the community -- The historical context -- The ethical base for mental health care -- The evidence base for mental health care -- The experience base for mental health care -- The geographical dimension : the country/regional level -- The geographical dimension : the local level -- The geographical dimension : the individual level -- The time dimension : the input phase -- The time dimension : the process phase -- The time dimension : the outcome phase -- The central role of staff for better mental health care -- Informed actions for better mental health care.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge, UK ; New York :
ISBN:
9780521689465 (pbk.)
0521689465 (pbk.)
Subject:
Mental health services.
Contents:
Beginning the journey : mapping the route -- Mental health of the population and care in the community -- The historical context -- The ethical base for mental health care -- The evidence base for mental health care -- The experience base for mental health care -- The geographical dimension : the country/regional level -- The geographical dimension : the local level -- The geographical dimension : the individual level -- The time dimension : the input phase -- The time dimension : the process phase -- The time dimension : the outcome phase -- The central role of staff for better mental health care -- Informed actions for better mental health care.
Physical Description:
x, 184 p. : ill. ;
Publication Date:
2009.
Title:
Better than conscious? decision making, the human mind, and implications for institutions / edited by Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer ; program advisory committee: Christoph Engel ... [et al.].
Strüngmann Forum reports
Strüngmann Forum reports.
Author:
Ernst Strüngmann Forum (2007 : Frankfurt, Germany)
Engel, Christoph, 1956-
Singer, W. (Wolf)
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany., Forum held June 10-15, 2007 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Publisher:
MIT Press,
Publication Place:
Cambridge, Mass. :
ISBN:
9780262195805 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262195801 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject:
Decision making -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses.
Decision making -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Cognitive neuroscience -- Congresses.
Electronic books.
Series:
Strüngmann Forum reports
Strüngmann Forum reports.
Contents:
Better than conscious?: the brain, the psyche, behavior, and institutions / Christoph Engel and Wolf Singer -- Conscious and nonconscious processes: distinct forms of evidence accumulation? / Stanislas Dehaene -- The role of value systems in decision making / Peter Dayan -- Neurobiology of decision making: an intentional framework / Michael N. Shadlen ... [et al.] -- Brain signatures of social decision making / Kevin McCabe and Tania Singer -- Neuronal correlates of decision making / Michael Platt ... [et al.] -- The evolution of implicit and explicit decision making / Robert Kurzban -- Passive parallel automatic minimalist processing / Roger Ratcliff and Gail McKoon -- How culture and brain mechanisms interact in decision making / Merlin Donald -- Marr, memory, and heuristics / Lael J. Schooler -- Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making / Christian Keysers ... [et al.] -- How evolution outwits bounded rationality: the efficient interaction of automatic and deliberate processes in decision making and implications for institutions / Andreas Glöckner -- The evolutionary biology of decision making / Jeffrey R. Stevens -- Gene culture coevolution and the evolution of social institutions / Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson -- Individual decision making and the evolutionary roots of institutions / Richard McElreath ... [et al.] -- The neurobiology of individual decision making, dualism, and legal accountability / Paul W. Glimcher -- Conscious and nonconscious cognitive processes in jurors' decisions / Reid Hastie -- Institutions for intuitive man / Christoph Engel -- Institutional design capitalizing on the intuitive nature of decision making / Mark Lubell ... [et al.].
Physical Description:
xiv, 449 p. : ill. (some col.).
Electronic Location:
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Publication Date:
c2008.
Title:
The better to eat you with fear in the animal world / Joel Berger.
Author:
Berger, Joel.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.
The wolf is at the door - who's afraid? -- The shy giant of the forest -- A tropical primate in Alaska -- Emissaries of a dying epoch -- Subarctic shadows -- To know thy enemy -- Among the naive -- A tiger east of the sun -- A continent of virgins and recent ghosts -- On being caribou and musk ox -- Islands of ice and innocence -- Changing the rules of engagement -- Nomads of the Gobi -- The silent cats of Patagonia -- A cedibility conundrum -- Different sides of the Darwinian divide -- Of fear and culture.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Publication Place:
Chicago :
ISBN:
9780226043630 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226043630 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject:
Fear in animals.
Electronic books.
Contents:
The wolf is at the door - who's afraid? -- The shy giant of the forest -- A tropical primate in Alaska -- Emissaries of a dying epoch -- Subarctic shadows -- To know thy enemy -- Among the naive -- A tiger east of the sun -- A continent of virgins and recent ghosts -- On being caribou and musk ox -- Islands of ice and innocence -- Changing the rules of engagement -- Nomads of the Gobi -- The silent cats of Patagonia -- A cedibility conundrum -- Different sides of the Darwinian divide -- Of fear and culture.
Physical Description:
xii, 305 p., [40] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps.
Electronic Location:
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Publication Date:
2008.
Title:
Better together : restoring the American community / Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein ; with Don Cohen
Author:
Putnam, Robert D Author.
Feldstein, Lewis M Author.
Cohen, Don, 1946- Author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Valley Interfaith : the most dangerous thing we do is talk to our neighbors -- Branch libraries : the heartbeat of the community -- Shipyard Project : building bridges with dance -- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative : grass roots in the city -- Tupelo model : building a community first -- Saddleback Church : from crowd to congregation -- Do something : letting young people lead -- Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers : the whole social thing -- Experience Corps : bringing old heads to the schools -- UPS : diversity and cohesion -- Craigslist.org : is virtual community real? -- Portland : a positive epidemic of civic engagement -- Conclusion : making social capital work
Offers a hopeful message about civic renewal with stories of a dozen places around the country where people are engaging in new forms of social activism and community renewal
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
0743235479
Subject:
Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Contents:
Introduction -- Valley Interfaith : the most dangerous thing we do is talk to our neighbors -- Branch libraries : the heartbeat of the community -- Shipyard Project : building bridges with dance -- Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative : grass roots in the city -- Tupelo model : building a community first -- Saddleback Church : from crowd to congregation -- Do something : letting young people lead -- Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers : the whole social thing -- Experience Corps : bringing old heads to the schools -- UPS : diversity and cohesion -- Craigslist.org : is virtual community real? -- Portland : a positive epidemic of civic engagement -- Conclusion : making social capital work
Physical Description:
xvi, 318 pages ;
Publication Date:
2003.
Title:
A better way of doing business? : lessons from the John Lewis Partnership / Graeme Salaman and John Storey.
Author:
Salaman, Graeme, author.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; A Better Way of Doing Business?: Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Research Methods; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: The Big Picture; Shareholder Value; The Fetish of the Market; Leadership: the God that Failed; How Managers Stole their Businesses; Summarizing the Problems and the Solutions; The John Lewis Partnership: A Better Way?; 2: An Introductory Profile of the John Lewis Partnership; An Outline View; A Brief History; The Customer Proposition.
The Partner Proposition: Ownership, Democracy and BenefitsBenefits; Ownership, Governance, and Democracy; The 'Critical Side'; The Registrars; Sharing Knowledge; Voice and Power; Conclusions; 3: Lessons from Employee-owned Businesses; The Policy Context; The Variety of Concepts and their Associated Meanings; Partnership; Employee Ownership and Worker Cooperatives; Worker Cooperatives; Mutuals; Other Terms; Employee Ownership: History and Practical Experience; UK Worker Cooperatives of the Early 1970s; Challenges and Controversies.
Managing to Counter 'Degeneration' in Employee-owned OrganizationsConclusions; 4: The Way the Business was Managed: 1990-2009; 1990-1999: 'Stagnation' to Awakening; 2000-2005: The Introduction of Business Planning; 2003-2004: The 'Compete to Win' Programme and the Launch of the Partner Survey; 2005-2009: Revitalizing the Partnership Spirit; 2008-2012: Coping with the Financial Crisis; Conclusions; 5: The Way the Business was Managed: 2010-2015; New Ambitions, 2010-2014; Further Expansion, 2015-2020; The Growth Imperative?; Lessons from the Pensions Fund Story; Overall Assessment.
The Challenges of Growth: Reputational IssuesThe Challenges of Growth: Organization, Systems, and Leadership; Growth and Impact on the Partnership; Growth and Who is a Member; Conclusions; 6: Reflections on Managers and Managing in the Partnership; The Strategic Objectives of the JLP; Building Capacity; Managing Meaning; Conclusions; 7: Governance, Democracy, and Accountability; Previous Assessments of JLP Democracy and Accountability; The Three Governing Authorities; Other Democratic Bodies; The History of Reform; Amendments up to 2004; The 2004 Democracy Project.
The 2008 Commission on Democratic CharacterThe John Lewis Democracy in the Wider Context; Accountability; Conclusions; 8: Conclusions; The Crucial Elements of the Model, Leadership, and How Managers Are Held to Account; The Performance of the JLP Businesses; Managers' Views of the Nature and Importance of Partner Engagement and Democracy; The Replicability of the JLP Model and the Wider Lessons; Final Considerations and Lessons; References; Name Index; Subject Index.
This work offers a thoroughly researched and accessible account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New York, NY :
ISBN:
9780191825996
0191825999
9780191085598
0191085596
9780198782827
0198782829
Subject:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Electronic books.
John Lewis Partnership.
John Lewis Partnership.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Cover; A Better Way of Doing Business?: Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Research Methods; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: The Big Picture; Shareholder Value; The Fetish of the Market; Leadership: the God that Failed; How Managers Stole their Businesses; Summarizing the Problems and the Solutions; The John Lewis Partnership: A Better Way?; 2: An Introductory Profile of the John Lewis Partnership; An Outline View; A Brief History; The Customer Proposition.
The Partner Proposition: Ownership, Democracy and BenefitsBenefits; Ownership, Governance, and Democracy; The 'Critical Side'; The Registrars; Sharing Knowledge; Voice and Power; Conclusions; 3: Lessons from Employee-owned Businesses; The Policy Context; The Variety of Concepts and their Associated Meanings; Partnership; Employee Ownership and Worker Cooperatives; Worker Cooperatives; Mutuals; Other Terms; Employee Ownership: History and Practical Experience; UK Worker Cooperatives of the Early 1970s; Challenges and Controversies.
Managing to Counter 'Degeneration' in Employee-owned OrganizationsConclusions; 4: The Way the Business was Managed: 1990-2009; 1990-1999: 'Stagnation' to Awakening; 2000-2005: The Introduction of Business Planning; 2003-2004: The 'Compete to Win' Programme and the Launch of the Partner Survey; 2005-2009: Revitalizing the Partnership Spirit; 2008-2012: Coping with the Financial Crisis; Conclusions; 5: The Way the Business was Managed: 2010-2015; New Ambitions, 2010-2014; Further Expansion, 2015-2020; The Growth Imperative?; Lessons from the Pensions Fund Story; Overall Assessment.
The Challenges of Growth: Reputational IssuesThe Challenges of Growth: Organization, Systems, and Leadership; Growth and Impact on the Partnership; Growth and Who is a Member; Conclusions; 6: Reflections on Managers and Managing in the Partnership; The Strategic Objectives of the JLP; Building Capacity; Managing Meaning; Conclusions; 7: Governance, Democracy, and Accountability; Previous Assessments of JLP Democracy and Accountability; The Three Governing Authorities; Other Democratic Bodies; The History of Reform; Amendments up to 2004; The 2004 Democracy Project.
The 2008 Commission on Democratic CharacterThe John Lewis Democracy in the Wider Context; Accountability; Conclusions; 8: Conclusions; The Crucial Elements of the Model, Leadership, and How Managers Are Held to Account; The Performance of the JLP Businesses; Managers' Views of the Nature and Importance of Partner Engagement and Democracy; The Replicability of the JLP Model and the Wider Lessons; Final Considerations and Lessons; References; Name Index; Subject Index.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 223 pages) : illustrations
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Publication Date:
2016.
Title:
A better way to zone ten principles to create more liveable cities / Donald L. Elliott.
Author:
Elliott, Donald L., 1957-
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
A brief history of zoning -- Failed assumptions -- Evolving land use drivers -- Governing well -- The legal framework for change -- What have we learned? -- A better way to zone -- The way forward.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Island Press,
Publication Place:
Washington, D.C. :
ISBN:
9781597261807 (cloth alk. paper)
1597261807 (cloth alk. paper)
9781597261814 (pbk. alk. paper)
1597261815 (pbk. alk. paper)
9781610910552 (e-book)
Subject:
Zoning law -- United States.
Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Electronic books.
Contents:
A brief history of zoning -- Failed assumptions -- Evolving land use drivers -- Governing well -- The legal framework for change -- What have we learned? -- A better way to zone -- The way forward.
Physical Description:
xi, 239 p. : ill.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10554547
Publication Date:
c2008.