State and Federal Documents

In Memoriam The South Carolina Silent Witness Story Office of the Attorney General. The S.T.O.P Violence Against Women Program of the South Carolina Attorney General holds a memorial program each year and recognizes the individuals who have died in the year due to domestic violence. This year 45 known individuals were remembered, along with a moment of silence for other victims not identified. The program book presents a short silohouette of each individual.

South Carolina HUD Homeless Count, January 27, 2011. The statistical tables of the January 2011 count were retrieved from the website of the Office of Research and Statistics and compiled for reference. Included is information on numbers of individuals and families, age groups, disabilities, race, shelter types, rates of homeless and more. Most information is on county levels.

League Legacy, Conversations with Past Presidents 1977-2011 League of Women Voters of South Carolina. This publication is the result of an oral history project of the league in celebration of the 60th anniversary of recognition by the lWVUS. Tapes, transcriptions and this booklet, which describes the lives and presidency tenures of 11 past presidents, are housed in the SC Political Collections, Hollings Library at the University of South Carolina.

South Carolina Business Resource Guide. SC Department of Commerce. The guide is designed to provide all types of busineeses with tools and reources to increase their opportunities for business success. Includes all contact information for several areas: getting started, licenses, financing, marketing, workforce devleopment, local area resources, and FAQs.

Statistical Abstract of the United States 2012 Last year was to be the last print edition of this famous title, but here is yet another edition. Over 1,400 tables and charts are reviewed for inclusion; this year 27 new tables are included. Some include data from the 2010 Decennial Census and the Survey of Business Owners. Also available on CD-ROM and online.

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Kindle Fire: Out of the Box By: Brian Sawyer Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Pub. Date: November 18, 2011

When you open the box for your brand-new Kindle Fire, you'll find the hottest 7-inch tablet to hit the market, a power adapter, and a "Quick Start Guide" that tells you how to turn it on. But to really take advantage of all the content and features the device has to offer, you'll need a little more. Kindle Fire: Out of the Box gets you up and running beyond the first "Slide to unlock" screen to unlock all of your media from the cloud in the palm of your hand. This intuitive, easy-to-follow ebook opens the world of possibilities made possible by the Kindle Fire, right out of the box.

Winning Habits: Techniques for Excellence in Sports By: B. P. Bam Publisher: Pearson Education India Pub. Date: April 05, 2008

Emphasizing particularly on sports, where competition is unavoidable, this book offers techniques and solutions from Indian and Western psychology, and yogic practices to deal with negative thoughts which create hindrances in the path to victory.

CISSP® Practice: 2,250 Questions, Answers, and Explanations for Passing the Test By: S. Rao Vallabhaneni Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pub. Date: October 18, 2011

A must-have prep guide for taking the CISSP certification exam If practice does, indeed, make perfect, then this is the book you need to prepare for the CISSP certification exam! And while the six-hour exam may be grueling, the preparation for it doesn't have to be. This invaluable guide offers an unparalleled number of test questions along with their answers and explanations so that you can fully understand the "why" behind the correct and incorrect answers. An impressive number of multiple-choice questions covering breadth and depth of security topics provides you with a wealth of information that will increase your confidence for passing the exam.

E-Learning by Design, 2nd Edition By: William Horton Publisher: Pfeiffer Pub. Date: October 11, 2011 The second edition of the bestselling book E-Learning by Design offers a comprehensive look at the concepts and processes of developing, creating, and implementing a successful e-learning program. This practical, down-to-earth resource is filled with clear information and instruction without over simplification. The book helps instructors build customized e-learning programs from scratch—building on core principles of instructional design to: develop meaningful activities and lessons; create and administer online tests and assessments; design learning games and simulations; and implement an individualized program.

The Great Workplace: Building Trust and Inspiring Performance By: Michael Burchell; Jennifer Robin Publisher: Pfeiffer Pub. Date: March 22, 2011

Trust is the key to developing a positive workplace culture in which employees have pride in what they do and enjoy their colleagues. This training package and assessment shows how to implement this concept in the workplace by providing strategies and development activities. Created by the authors of the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For List, it is designed to increase employee productivity and boost performance.

Field Tested: Recruiting, Managing, and Retaining Veterans By: Emily King Publisher: AMACOM Pub. Date: November 30, 2011

Veterans are a tremendous source of untapped talent and come with a wealth of skills and experience beyond those of typical civilian employees.

A Mathematical Nature Walk By: John A. Adam Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: April 20, 2009

How heavy is that cloud? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? Why are the droplets on that spider web spaced apart so evenly? If you have ever asked questions like these while outdoors, and wondered how you might figure out the answers, this is a book for you. An entertaining and informative collection of fascinating puzzles from the natural world around us, A Mathematical Nature Walk will delight anyone who loves nature or math or both. John Adam presents ninety-six questions about many common natural phenomena--and a few uncommon ones--and then shows how to answer them using mostly basic mathematics. Can you weigh a pumpkin just by carefully looking at it? Why can you see farther in rain than in fog? What causes the variations in the colors of butterfly wings, bird feathers, and oil slicks? And why are large haystacks prone to spontaneous combustion? These are just a few of the questions you'll find inside. Many of the problems are illustrated with photos and drawings, and the book also has answers, a glossary of terms, and a list of some of the patterns found in nature. About a quarter of the questions can be answered with arithmetic, and many of the rest require only precalculus. But regardless of math background, readers will learn from the informal descriptions of the problems and gain a new appreciation of the beauty of nature and the mathematics that lies behind it.

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Designing the Digital Experience David Lee King Information Today, Inc. November 3, 2011

An indispensable guide to unleashing the viral marketing genie and standing out from the competition. Written for creative, tech-savvy, and business-minded individuals who want to increase the accessibility of their websites, this sensible guidebook explains the concepts behind designing experiences on the internet. From helping customers quickly find information and make their purchases to clearly communicating needs and interests, this resource will not only develop consumer loyalty but will encourage them to spread the word about the sites they frequent. Focusing on the three key areas of structure, community, and customers, designers will enable clients to focus on their own goals rather than on difficulties in navigating. Also included are tips on how to generate conversations with blogs, wikis, and podcasting to create a personal touch.

You Need a Leader—Now What? James M. Citrin and Julie Daum Crown Publishing, October 18, 2011

"Not only is this book invaluable to those seeking a new leader for their organization, but it is also a must read for anyone going through the process of being interviewed for a key leadership role." "There's one big difference between companies that change the world and those that don't: having the right people. You Need a Leader -- Now What? offers a clear roadmap for how to identify and select the right people for all levels of your organization."

How to Get Your Customers Swearing by You Not at You Nancy Friedman. HRD Press, May 2011

Faced with the challenge of developing effective customer service training? Not sure where to start? Whether you are a novice at the customer service game or an experienced facilitator, this book will make the development process fun and a whole lot easier. How to Get Customers Swearing by You, Not at You is an invaluable source of customer service material, tips and ideas all geared toward keeping the customers you worked so hard to get. The book is highly readable, the suggestions are easily adapted and the information is serious, yet presented in a lighthearted manner. Step by step, the "Telephone Doctor" walks you through the process of creating a formal customer service training program. Topics include barriers to training, management involvement, content, budgets and costs, icebreakers, workbooks, role playing, lecturing, questions, problem attendees, classroom evaluations, testing and more. Throughout the book, the author offers short commentaries on aspects of training and customer service that will help you look at the subject in a fresh, new light. How to Get Customers Swearing by You, Not at You covers a lot of ground. But it is all common sense and will empower you to create your own customer service training program and make it as basic or elaborate as you wish.

Word Hero. A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines that Get Laughs, Go Viarl, and Live Forever. Jay Heinrichs. Crown Publishing, October 2011

Word heroism takes very few words--no more than a dozen or so. Few of us remember Franklin Roosevelt's speeches, but many of us remember the memorable, the characteristic parts, that made FDR FDR. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "This is a day that will live in infamy." To create memorable words yourself, you simply need to discover a set of techniques,--forty-three in all--that have been used by masters from Winston Churchill to Jimmy Kimmel. These tools will help you focus on the few words that count the most in a conversation, argument, important e-mail, blog post, thank-you letter, college paper, or presentation. This book does far more than merely list the techniques, though. Consider it a course in self-taught heroism, and use it to develop your own unforgettability. From the next chapter on, you will progress through the stages of phrase-making mastery, beginning with Word Apprentice and working up to Word Hero, that rarified state where your witcraft compels people to remember your name. By the time you achieve word heroism, you will have gained: Confidence in your ability to write and speak, Knowledge of what makes a memorable expression memorable, Prowess in producing the right words in just the right order for maximum effect, Skill in the techniques used (consciously or instinctively) by the most unforgettable personalities.

The South’s Role in the Creation of the Bill of Rights. Robert J. Haws. University Press of Mississippi, October 2011

In 1991 the bicentennial of the adoption of the Bill of Rights provided an occasion for examining the origins of this most important statement of individual rights in American history. Published on this anniversary, The South's Role in the Creation of the Bill of Rights sheds light on the paradoxical part the South played in the process of drafting and adopting this document. In cogent essays from the Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History held at the University of Mississippi in 1988 six noted experts in legal, constitutional, and southern history fill a gap in the literature of southern legal history for the period 1787-1791. The southern role is particularly important because political leaders in the South took the lead in promoting a bill of rights and at the same time vociferously defended the right to hold slaves. The essays in this book comprise a complete discussion of the writing and ratification of the Constitution and the adoption of the Bill of Rights in five southern seaboard states. They reveal the interplay of a desire to protect states' rights, a concern for the preservation of individual liberty, and a defensive attitude toward slavery that governed southern attitudes. These concerns dominated constitutional discourse until the Civil War. The South's peculiar "cultural constitutionalism" was first given definition in this period of American history, and as this book reveals, it initiated the process of setting the region apart from the rest of the United States. The events of these years were a necessary first step in establishing a southern regional identity.