Alamosa Public Library

The Right Phrase for Every Situation . . . Every Time

Communication is the single most important skill for excelling as a manager. What you say and how you say it sets the tone for your department and your entire organization.

Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors, second edition, has been completely revised to help you communicate in today's workplace, where collaboration, cooperation, and personalization are

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Introduces basic weather terms and concepts.

Text, "exploded view" photographs, and labels reveal the inner workings of boats, ships, and nautical equipment.

Teaches readers about the world of baby animals by identifying animals that share the same names.

From acrostics and ballads to meter and metaphor, author and poet Judy Young has written a collection of poems to illustrate poetic tools, terms, and techniques. Each term or technique is demonstrated in an accompanying poem so readers can see the method at work.

"The book Charles Darwin used to identify colors in nature during his HMS Beagle voyage"--

"The first and best pocket dictionary of musical terms is now better! Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

The All New Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores is an updated edition of the everyone's favorite hardware shopping guide and reference book. There's nothing more frustrating than making multiple trips to the hardware store because you purchased the wrong item. Those double-or even triple-trips to the big box store are a thing of the past with The All New Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores. You'll learn the...