World Heritage Authentic Stories comprises four stories: In Soccer Sam, Sam finds difficulty in trying to entertain his cousin Marco from Mexico due to the latter’s in ability to communicate in English. However, when the fourth graders challenge the fifth graders in soccer, Sam was impressed by Marco’s skill and energy! But who turns out to be the winner? In Field Day, Rosie and Sally are not on good terms while their teams are competing. Rosie is on the team with red jerseys, and Sally is on the team with yellow ones. With every game the two teams played, scores go up and down until the two teams play the water balloon game and finally the race. Who do you think the winner is? Will the two girls be friends again or not? In The Pudding Like a Night on the Sea Julian’s father makes a wonderful pudding for his wife who is out shopping and decides to take a nap. He asks his two kids stay away from the pudding and not to touch it! However, he wakes up after a while to find out that his two sons have tampered with the pudding and spoiled it! What do you think the punishment they will receive? Sun and Moon presents an interesting dialogue between Earth and the Sun in which the latter complains that the wind, the rainbow, and even children are not good enough to be his friends. The Moon, in its turn, suffers from loneliness, too and refuses to regard the stars, the comets and the children as his friends. Earth finally solves the problem, but how?

Consulting in Complex and Changing Times Organizations face challenges today that are too messy and complicated for consultants to simply play doctor: run a few tests, offer a neat diagnosis of the “problem,” and recommend a solution. Edgar Schein argues that consultants have to jettison the old idea of professional distance and work with their clients in a more personal way, emphasizing authentic openness, curiosity, and humility. Schein draws deeply on his own decades of experience, offering over two dozen case studies that illuminate each stage of this humble consulting process. Just as he did with Process Consultation nearly fifty years ago, Schein has once again revolutionized the field, enabling consultants to be more genuinely helpful and vastly more effective.

Authentic relating is a groundbreaking relational practice that creates profoundly enriching, enlivening, trustable, and vulnerable relationships in all social domains of life. It works at home and in business, among friends and colleagues, and between individuals and in groups by teaching people the practices and principles of skillful relationship and human connection.Authentic relating consists of skills and tools that are potent, versatile, and easy to learn and apply. It combines cutting edge research into the science of relationships with the timeless tenets of ancient wisdom to produce a relational practice that is non-dogmatic, eminently practical, and immediately accessible by a mainstream audience.Ryel Kestano has been at the leading edge of the rapidly expanding movement of authentic relating around the world, and the company he co-founded and still leads - Authentic Relating Training International - is the largest and most well-known of the world's many authentic relating schools and organizations. Ryel has trained thousands of people and dozens of companies in over forty locations on five continents, and is also a co-founder of The Realness Project, an organization dedicated to teaching the skills of authentic relating to inmates.

Interchange Third Edition is a four-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level.

Food traceability is a growing consumer concern worldwide. Traceability is undertaken primarily at the administrative level, where the use of advanced analytical tools is not available. Nevertheless, the determination of geographical origin is a requirement of the traceability system for the import and export of foodstuffs (EU regulation 178/2002). The topics covered in this book include the history of traceability; legislations and rules; the actual traceability techniques and the potential analytical techniques for food traceability such as molecular methods (e.g. DGGE, SSCP), next generation sequencers (NGS), bio-captors, chromatographic techniques, isotopic analysis that are used for discrimination of organic food, fish, oils. The chromatographic techniques help in the use of volatile compounds analysis. The isotope analysis helps in distinguishing between chicken meat and vegetable oils. Ambient mass spectrometry is used for studying mycotoxines and alkaloids in foodstuffs and their management, food and feed authentication in olive and other plant oils, and wine. Vibrational methods (e.g. NMR and NIRS) are used to trace food by global spectrum. The book reviews the current and future techniques including metabolomic techniques.

This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share representational and processing requirements, and it is for this reason that they are considered together in this text. The book is divided into three parts. Part I considers foundational and background issues. Part II provides a series of case studies spanning a range of cognitive domains. Part III reflects upon issues raised by the case studies. Teachers of cognitive modeling may use material from Part I to structure lectures and practical sessions, with chapters in Part II forming the basis of in-depth student projects. All models discussed in this book are developed within the COGENT environments. COGENT provides a graphical interface in which models may be sketched as "box and arrow" diagrams and is both a useful teaching tool and a productive research tool. As such, this book is designed to be of use to both students of cognitive modeling and active researchers. For students, the book provides essential background material plus an extensive set of example models, exercises and project material. Researchers of both symbolic and connectionist persuasions will find the book of interest for its approach to cognitive modeling, which emphasizes methodological issues. They will also find that the COGENT environment itself has much to offer.