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|  | Culinary Arts Career Starter by Mary Masi
Description not available.Covers career outlook, training programs, financial aid, finding work, and achieving success AUTHOR: Mary Masi
PUBLISHER: LearningExpress, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Land Rover - Simply the Best by Martin Hodder
Land Rover, the world's most successful off-road marque, was introduced in 1948 for the toughest of conditions. Today, the family includes the sophisticated Range Rover, Discovery and Freelander, as well as the rugged Defender. Authoritatively written and illustrated with specially commissioned color photographs, this company history examines Land Rover's thriving enthusiast movement, military applications and the Camel Trophy -- the world's toughest off-road adventure. AUTHOR: Martin Hodder
PUBLISHER: Haynes Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Halloween Book of Fun by Jeffrey A. O'Hare
Description not available.A rib-tickling funfest with a Halloween theme includes a bevy of riddles, mazes, word searches, hidden pictures, solve-the-mystery stories, costume ideas, and other comical nonsense, and includes an answer key to the puzzles at the end. Original. AUTHOR: Jeffrey A. O'Hare
PUBLISHER: Boyds Mills Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Planter's Prospect by John Michael Vlach
Although nineteenth-century American landscapes typically were painted from a high vantage point, looking down from above, southern landscapes that featured plantations diverged from this convention in telling ways. Portraits of planters' landholdings were often depicted from a point below the plantation house, a perspective that directs the viewer's gaze upward and, as John Vlach observes, echoes the deference and respect the planter class assumed was its due. Moreover, Vlach notes, slaves were rarely represented in plantation paintings made before the Civil War, although it was slave labor that powered the plantation system. After the war and the abolition of slavery, he argues, a wistful revisionism seems to have restored these people--still toiling in the service of the masters--to the landscapes they had created and on which they were so cruelly mistreated. This richly illustrated book explores the statements of power and ironic evasions encoded in plantation landscapes, focusing on six artists whose collective body of work spans the period between 1800 and 1935 and documents plantations across the South, from Maryland to Louisiana: Francis Guy, Charles Fraser, Adrien Persac, Currier & Ives chief artist Fanny Palmer, William Aiken Walker, and Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. AUTHOR: John Michael Vlach
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Cultivating Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Richard A. McDermott, William Snyder
Today's economy is fueled by knowledge. Every leader knows this to be true, yet few have systematic methods for converting organizational knowledge into economic value. This book argues that communities of practice--groups of individuals formed around common interests and expertise--provide the ideal vehicle for driving knowledge-management strategies and building lasting competitive advantage. Written by leading experts in the field, CULTIVATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE is the first book to outline models and methods for systematically developing these essential groups. Through compelling research and company examples, including DaimlerChrysler, McKinsey & Company, Shell, and the World Bank, authors Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder show how world-class organizations have leveraged communities of practice to drive strategy, generate new business opportunities, solve problems, transfer best practices, develop employees' professional skills, and recruit and retain top talent. Underscoring the new central role communities of practice are playing in today's knowledge economy, CULTIVATING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE is the definitive guide to fostering, designing, and developing these powerful groups within and across organizations. AUTHOR: Etienne Wenger, Richard A. McDermott, William Snyder
PUBLISHER: Harvard Business School Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Vikings Don't Wear Wrestling Belts by Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jones
Description not available.Convinced that professional wrestler Viking Vince is preparing to lead a real Viking invasion into Bailey City, Howie, Melody, Liza, and Eddie investigate. AUTHOR: Debbie Dadey, Marcia Thornton Jones, Jones
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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