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Managing Scientists: Leadership Strategies in Scientific Research

• ISBN:
• 0471226149
• Authors:
• Alice M. Sapienza

As any scientist working in today’s research environment will tell you, poor management is more than a nuisance at the edges of laboratory work. Scientists are human beings first, and ineffective leadership will wreak havoc. Labs will get thrown into turmoil, personality conflicts will undermine teamwork, discrimination will isolate group members, and the creativity so essential to truly great work will vanish. To say that leadership quality...

Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest-Growing Faith

• ISBN:
• 1893554775
• Authors:
• Robert Spencer

Taking on the hard questions about what the Islamic religion actually teaches, Robert Spencer sets forth the potentially ominous implications of those teachings for the future of both the Muslim world and the West.

Great Age Guide to Online Health and Wellness

• ISBN:
• 0789735326
• Authors:
• Sandy Berger

Que's Great Age Guides celebrate the vital role and lifestyle of today's young, active 50+ adults. Most well-known "middle-aged" people of sixty-five or seventy would have you believe that Great Age is so wonderful that all the years leading up to it are a waste of time! People in this great age are transforming retirement's traditional laid-back "golden years" in pure platinum. Great Ager's break retirement tradition by working well past...

The Complete Idiot's Guide To Amazing Sex (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0028643763
• Authors:
• Sari Locker

In The Complete Idiot's GuideA (R) to Amazing Sex, Sari Locker taught us all that sex doesn't have to be restricted merely to the old missionary position; she amply illustrated how to put some exciting sizzle into our sex lives, by casting aside inhibitions and experimenting with sexual positions that would have made the authors of the Kama Sutra blush. Now, in the updated and revised edition, Ms. Locker has added even more titillating tips...

Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0123748909
• Authors:
• Thomas W. Cusick, Pantelimon Stanica

Boolean functions are the building blocks of symmetric cryptographic systems. Symmetrical cryptographic algorithms are fundamental tools in the design of all types of digital security systems (i.e. communications, financial and e-commerce). Cryptographic Boolean Functions and Applications is a concise reference that shows how Boolean functions are used in cryptography. Currently, practitioners who need to apply Boolean functions in the design of...

Citizens and the State (Beliefs in Government, Vol 1)

• ISBN:
• 0198279558

It is generally believed that the relationship between citizens and the state in Western European democracies has undergone a fundamental change in the last decades. Many observers regard this change as a challenge to representative democracy. This book addresses the problem form the citizen's perspectiv. Singling out the ten fundamental components of the view that representative democracy is under threat, the book goes on to test them...

The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics)

• ISBN:
• 0199280428
• Authors:
• Geert Booij, G. E. Booij

Provides an introduction to how words are formed, showing how the component parts of words affect their grammatical function, meaning, and sound. It provides comprehensive coverage for use in undergraduate courses in morphology.

Reasons and Rationalizations: The Limits to Organizational Knowledge

• ISBN:
• 0199286825
• Authors:
• Chris Argyris

What is the purpose of social science and management research? Do scholars/researchers have a responsibility to generate insights and knowledge that are of practical (implementable) value and validity? We are told we live in turbulent and changing times, should this not provide an important opportunity for management researchers to provide understanding and guidance? Yet there is widespread concern about the efficacy of much research. These are...

Knowledge and Practical Interests (Lines of Thought)

• ISBN:
• 0199288038
• Authors:
• Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley presents a startling and provocative claim about knowledge: that whether or not someone knows a proposition at a given time is in part determined by his or her practical interests, i.e. by how much is at stake for that person at that time. In defending this thesis, Stanley introduces readers to a number of strategies for resolving philosophical paradox, making the book essential not just for specialists in epistemology but for all...

John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

• ISBN:
• 0199289840
• Authors:
• Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns

Winner of the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Award for a distinguished monograph on Milton published in 2008 Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent...

Reason's Neglect: Rationality and Organizing

• ISBN:
• 019929836X
• Authors:
• Barbara Townley

Reason, and the need to Be Rational, are essential dimensions of society and the organizations we live and work in. Yet the "rationalization" of working and administrative processes, or the "rationality" studied in social sciences, is all too often, used, understood, and interpreted in an extremely narrow sense. Reason's Neglect does three things. Firstly, it argues that rationality is a leitmotif of organization studies, but one that has often...

Trade Union Merger Strategies: Purpose, Process, and Performance

• ISBN:
• 0199544948
• Authors:
• Roger Undy

As Trade Union membership has declined, union mergers have been prominent features in strategies of revitalization. Yet, there is very little systematic and empirical research into the effects of union mergers on the unions actually merging or of their impact on the wider union movement. This ground-breaking study fills this gap with its in-depth analysis of British unions' mergers since 1978: the point at which British unions moved from growth...

Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future

• ISBN:
• 0226530418
• Authors:
• Newton N. Minow, Craig L. LaMay

Newton Minow’s long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a “vast wasteland,” thus inaugurating a career dedicated to reforming television to better serve the public interest. Since then, he has been chairman of PBS and on the board of CBS and elsewhere, but his most lasting...

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

• ISBN:
• 0262062127
• Authors:
• Jerry Fodor

In this engaging book, Jerry Fodor argues against the widely held view that mental processes are largely computations, that the architecture of cognition is massively modular, and that the explanation of our innate mental structure is basically Darwinian. Although Fodor has praised the computational theory of mind as the best theory of cognition that we have got, he considers it to be only a fragment of the truth. In fact, he claims, cognitive...

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

• ISBN:
• 0262150530

The nature/nurture debate is not dead. Dichotomous views of development still underlie many fundamental debates in the biological and social sciences. Developmental systems theory (DST) offers a new conceptual framework with which to resolve such debates. DST views ontogeny as contingent cycles of interaction among a varied set of developmental resources, no one of which controls the process. These factors include DNA, cellular and organismic...

Jerry Wiesner, Scientist, Statesman, Humanist: Memories and Memoirs

• ISBN:
• 0262182327

The recurring theme in Jerry Wiesner's varied and distinguished career was what Senator Edward M. Kennedy calls in the foreword to this book a "passionate involvement to make a better world, and a safer world." His odyssey as a public citizen included work as an acoustician for folklorist Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress, research at MIT's Radiation Lab and at Los Alamos, service as President John F. Kennedy's Special Assistant for Science...

Management and Organisational Behaviour

• ISBN:
• 0273688766
• Authors:
• Laurie J. Mullins

This book helps students of today become effective managers of tomorrow by truly understanding organizational behavior. This book is for undergraduate and graduate courses in Organizational Behavior and Management. Taking a managerial approach and demonstrating the application of behavioral science within the workplace, this text emphasizes the role of management as a core integrating activity. This long established market leader has set...

The Matrix Organization Reloaded: Adventures in Team and Project Management (Creating Corporate Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 0275991334
• Authors:
• Marvin R. Gottlieb

Matrix management was introduced in the 1970s in the context of competition from Japanese manufacturers, computerization of many technical and administrative tasks, and a recognition among business leaders that cross-functional teams (comprised of people from different departments and specialties) were necessary to create and produce complex products rapidly. Ideally, this approach, in which people are assigned to projects, rather than...

Direct Marketing in Action: Cutting-Edge Strategies for Finding and Keeping the Best Customers

• ISBN:
• 0275992233

In many ways, mass marketing--broadcasting one's message to a large and anonymous population of potential customers--no longer works. In a marketplace increasingly defined by customer categories with high expectations for service, quality, and responsiveness, companies are discovering that they must invest more heavily in reaching and communicating with their customers directly in order to stay competitive. But to many consumers, direct...

Chaotic Markets: Thriving in a World of Unpredictability

• ISBN:
• 027599371X
• Authors:
• A. Coskun Samli

Drawing from decades of research, teaching, and consulting in the fields of marketing and strategy, the author demystifies the forces of market chaos, including technological change, globalization, and consumer behavior, showing readers how to identify those forces that can be turned to their competitive advantage. Featuring dozens of illustrative examples, of both winners and losers, and concluding each chapter with a series of questions...

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Managing Information Technology

• ISBN:
• 0275995453
• Authors:
• CJ Rhoads

Software. Hardware. Networks. Wireless. Entrepreneurs face a bewildering array of choices and decisions when it comes to incorporating technology into the fabric of their businesses. Yet nothing could be more important these days. Aligning information technology (IT) with business strategy is essential to meet and beat the competition. As business strategy and technology expert CJ Rhoads shows, managing information technology effectively is an...

How Healthy Is Your Organization?: The Leader's Guide to Curing Corporate Diseases and Promoting Joyful Cultures (Creating Corporate Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 0275997766
• Authors:
• Imre Lövey, Eszter Erdélyi, Manohar Nadkarni

In today's stressful work environment, organizations can be crippled not only by product failures or dramatic market shifts but by internal demons. Typical symptoms of corporate dis-ease include distrust, lack of communication, territoriality, and other negative qualities that fester below the surface and ultimately sap the organization's vitality. But according to these experts in organizational dynamics, it doesn't have to be that way. In...

A Quiet World: Living with Hearing Loss

• ISBN:
• 0300084390
• Authors:
• Professor David G. Myers

How do millions of people cope with hearing loss? How can medicine and technology help? In this engaging and practical book, social psychologist David G. Myers explores the problems of the hard of hearing from a first-hand perspective. He offers advice for those with hearing problems and their families and friends as well as hopeful information on new technology and surgical procedures.

I, Maya Plisetskaya

• ISBN:
• 0300088574
• Authors:
• Maya Plisetskaya

Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odyssey, presenting a unique view of the life of a Soviet artist during the troubled period from the late 1930s to the 1990s. Plisetskaya recounts the execution of her father in the Great Terror and her...

The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England

• ISBN:
• 0300100582
• Authors:
• Robin S. Oggins

In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry in medieval times, a book that draws on forty years of research to provide a full description of the actual practice and conditions of the sport and of the role of falconers in the...

Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene)

• ISBN:
• 0300101627
• Authors:
• Edmund S. Morgan

The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This best-selling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot.

The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition

• ISBN:
• 0300109725
• Authors:
• Larry E. Morris

The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over? The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form—from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental...

The Lennon Companion

• ISBN:
• 0306812703
• Authors:
• Elizabeth Thomson, David Gutman

"Preferring Paul to John was like preferring Cliff Richard to Elvis Presley, or Donovan to Dylan. John was the leader; he was his own man." -Martin Amis John Lennon lives on. Forty years after the Beatles invaded America in 1964, and more than twenty years after Lennon's death, his work is perennially popular and continues to appeal across the generations. A man shrouded in myth and controversy, Lennon led a complex, enigmatic life. The Lennon...

The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

• ISBN:
• 0313339961

The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key...

Battleground: Immigration

• ISBN:
• 0313344132

Among the most tumultuous conflicts of modern America is the war over legal and undocumented immigrants currently residing within U.S. borders. Since the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, America has witnessed an unprecedented flow of immigrants onto its shores, with increased diversity of race and culture. Battleground: Immigration examines the most critical issues surrounding immigration today, including effects on the...

The Real History Behind the Templars

• ISBN:
• 0425215334
• Authors:
• Sharan Newman

The medieval historian who revealed The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code uncloaks the Templars. In the year 1119, these noblemen found their calling as protectors of the faithful on a dangerous pilgrimage to newly conquered Jerusalem. Now, historian Sharan Newman elucidates the mysteries and misconceptions of the Templars, from their true first founding and role in the Crusades to more modern intrigues, including: - Were they devout knights...

Philosophy of Mathematics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science)

• ISBN:
• 0444515550

One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects in some non-physical, mathematical realm? Are they ideas that are present only in the mind? Or do mathematical truths not involve referents of any...

Handbook of Differential Equations: Evolutionary Equations, Volume 5

• ISBN:
• 0444532226

The material collected in this volume discusses the present as well as expected future directions of development of the field with particular emphasis on applications. The seven survey articles present different topics in Evolutionary PDE's, written by leading experts. - Review of new results in the area - Continuation of previous volumes in the handbook series covering evolutionary PDEs - New content coverage of DE applications

Great Minds in Management: The Process of Theory Development

• ISBN:
• 0199276811

In Great Minds in Management, Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories. The result is not only an ambitious and original panorama of the...

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Gender and Culture Series)

• ISBN:
• 0231134444
• Authors:
• Christine Froula

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that...

Chinese National Cinema (National Cinemas Series.)

• ISBN:
• 041517290X
• Authors:
• Yingjin Zhang

What does it mean to be "Chinese?" This controversial question has sparked off a never-ending process of image-making in Chinese and Chinese-speaking communities throughout the twentieth century. This introduction to Chinese national cinema, written by a leading scholar, covers three "Chinas": mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It traces the formation, negotiation and problematization of the national on the Chinese screen over ninety years....

Great Women of Imperial Rome: Mothers and Wives of the Caesars

• ISBN:
• 0415408970
• Authors:
• Burns

"All women, because of their innate weakness, should be under the control of guardians" writes Cicero, curtly summarizing the status of women in Ancient Rome. Yet Roman women had more control than many believe. Stories of female artists, teachers, doctors, and even gladiators are scattered through the history of Imperial Rome; a Roman woman did not change her name when she married, her husband could not control her property or dowry, and she was...

Men's Sexual Health: Fitness for Satisfying Sex

• ISBN:
• 0415956382
• Authors:
• Barry McCarthy, Michael E. Metz

This book explains healthy male sexuality, written by, for and about men. It is for men and their partners as they negotiate their sexuality around healthy practices. The work is organized around three main topics - awareness and enhancement of sexuality, dealing with sexual problems, and lifelong healthy sexuality. A multidimensional model for a comprehensive understanding of sexual health and sexual problems founded on current biological,...

Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust Holocaust And The David Irving Trial

• ISBN:
• 0465021522
• Authors:
• Richard J. Evans

In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last 00/04, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of...

Six Sigma Team Dynamics: The Elusive Key to Project Success

• ISBN:
• 0471222771
• Authors:
• George Eckes, Sandra Derickson

"Any Six Sigma effort without Facilitative Leadership is a swing-and-a-miss. Six Sigma Team Dynamics is a thorough discussion of the roles, responsibilities, and pitfalls to avoid as a project team traverses through the DMAIC process. Touch ’em all George, you’ve hit an upper deck shot here!" –Mike Kaupa Senior VP, Process Management Park Nicollet Health Services "George makes Six Sigma simple. His solutions from real life about how to...

Rattiner's Review for the CFP Certification Examination, Fast Track Study Guide

• ISBN:
• 0471272655
• Authors:
• Jeffrey H. Rattiner

A CFP® Study Guide that delivers what you need to succeed! This quick study guide for candidates preparing to take the CFP® Certification Examination covers the bare-bones essentials needed to pass this challenging exam in a logical and easy-to-absorb manner. Covering some of the most important disciplines of financial planning–– insurance, employee benefit, investment, income tax, retirement, estate, and general planning–– this text...

Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark: Reconstructing Life after Brain Injury

• ISBN:
• 0520231147
• Authors:
• Ruthann Knechel Johansen

Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, Erik's own efforts, and those of everyone who helps bring him from deep coma to new life make up a moving and inspiring story for us all, one that...

English Words: History and Structure

• ISBN:
• 0521790123
• Authors:
• Robert Stockwell, Donka Minkova

English Words: History and Structure is concerned primarily with the learned vocabulary of English, the words borrowed from the classical languages and French. It is both an introduction to some of the basic principles of linguistic analysis and a helpful manual for vocabulary discernment and enrichment.

Rethinking Performance Measurement

• ISBN:
• 0521812437
• Authors:
• Marshall W. Meyer

Performance measurement remains a vexing problem for business firms and other kinds of organizations. The "balanced scorecard", widely touted as a solution to problems of performance measurement and strategic planning, has no strong basis in theory. Moreover, implementation of the "balanced scorecard" may create many more problems than it solves. This text returns to the fundamentals by asking what is the performance of the firm, can this...

Machiavelli and Empire (Ideas in Context)

• ISBN:
• 0521839459
• Authors:
• Mikael Hörnqvist

Exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli's political vision was formed, Mikael Hornqvist stresses the classical and rhetorical character of Machiavelli's thought. He analyzes his preoccupation with glory and liberality in relation to the revival of Roman ideas of triumphalism. The result is a revealing account of the formation of Machiavelli's characteristic preoccupations.

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

• ISBN:
• 0553805096
• Authors:
• Alice Schroeder

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known...

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, Vol. 1

• ISBN:
• 0567022420
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135) Vol. 3, Part 1

• ISBN:
• 0567022447
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: 175 B.C.-A.D. 135, (Volume III Part 2)

• ISBN:
• 0567093735
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer, Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, Martin Goodman

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities (Blackwell Companions to Sociology)

• ISBN:
• 0631231544

The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class and gender sexuality, age, and nationality. The volume highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities. An international group of leading scholars gives special attention to...

Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Essays in Art and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0674809661
• Authors:
• Richard Wendorf

That Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) became the most fashionable painter of his time was not simply due to his artistic gifts or good fortune. The art of pleasing, Richard Wendorf contends, was as much a part of Reynolds's success--in his life and in his work--as the art of painting. The author's examination of Reynolds's life and career illuminates the nature of eighteenth-century English society in relation to the enterprise of...

Rhys Davies: Decoding the Hare

• ISBN:
• 0708316948

Published to mark the 100th anniversary of Rhys Davies's birth, this collection contains essays on the major aspects of Davies's life and work, from the literary, social, and national contexts within which he wrote, to issues of gender, sexuality, and race. Assessed is his importance not just as a writer of short stories, as he has long been identified, but also as one of the finest Welsh novelists writing in English.

Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World

• ISBN:
• 0716735121
• Authors:
• Ted Anton

Science is at a crossroads. Cold War-era easy money for grand-scale projects has become a thing of the past. And yet, in this new environment, science seems to be reinvigorating itself, moving away from an overly specialized, bureaucratic mindset to a more streamlined, multidisciplinary approach. In a number of fields, innovative teams led by gifted researchers are combining imaginative methods with inexpensive tools to chip away at the...

The Road To Al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man (Critical Studies on Islam)

• ISBN:
• 0745321763
• Authors:
• Montasser al-Zayyat, Ahmed Fekry, Sara Nimis

The Road to Al-Qaeda is a controversial book. Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider. It is also a biography of one of the world's most-wanted terrorists: Egyptian-born Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri. Widely recognized as the man who will take over the leadership of Al-Qaeda...

The River of Angry Dogs: A Memoir

• ISBN:
• 0745322336
• Authors:
• Mira Hamermesh

"An extraordinary book, an extraordinary, frightening life. To be Polish without nation, Jewish without family, hunted down in a land at war - and to be a genius in the making - well, it's not the normal teenager's life. Mira Hamermesh sees past and present with a film-maker's flawless eye, in this shattering written memorial to those she loved and lost." -- Fay Weldon, Introduction Mira Hamermesh is an award-winning filmmaker, painter and...

Women's Rights (Small Guides to Big Issues)

• ISBN:
• 0745323480
• Authors:
• Geraldine Terry

All over the world, women and girls are being denied their social, economic, political and civil rights. The aim of this book is to expose this systematic discrimination wherever it occurs – in education, access to public services, in reaping benefits from trade, and elsewhere. The book also explores violence against women and looks at how the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa is linked to the denial of women’s rights. Geraldine Terry looks at...

Change Management Action Kit, 2e

• ISBN:
• 0749433809
• Authors:
• Colin Rye

Designed as a toolkit, this practical guide is packed with techniques and hints to help managers bring about change that will have long-term effects. Illustrations offer details of the purpose and method of operation of many of the most popular change management tools currently being used by top organizations.The CD-Rom will aid quick, efficient use of the information within the book. Contents include: Principles of Change Management, change...

Designing Organizations: The Foundation for Excellence

• ISBN:
• 0749434570
• Authors:
• Philip Sadler

This is virtually the only book on organizational theory and design that distills the essence of the latest research and analysis for the benefit of practicing managers. Previously titled Designing Organizations, this fourth edition is a valuable reference tool for anyone in a strategic or decision-making role. Includes information on: The customer-driven company, developing organizational competence, building the seamless organization,...

Training with the Midas Touch: Developing Your Organization's Greatest Asset

• ISBN:
• 0749437391
• Authors:
• Richard Palmer

This thought provoking yet practical book provides a structured route to making the most of the 'human capital' in an organization by taking a holistic approach to both staff development and organizational success. Provides a sound theoretical framework for staff development and includes a detailed academic reading list. Softcover.

Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others

• ISBN:
• 0749447982
• Authors:
• John Adair

What motivates people is an important consideration for captains of industry, commerce, and the public sector -- in fact anyone in a position of leadership. Leadership and Motivation explores the subject in depth. Leadership guru John Adair reassesses the theories of Herzberg and Maslow -- still the major contributors to our understanding of motivation -- in the context of Action-Centered Leadership, the concept pioneered and developed by the...

Positive Psychology: The Scientific and Practical Explorations of Human Strengths

• ISBN:
• 076192633X
• Authors:
• C. R. Snyder, Dr. Shane J Lopez

Written by two leaders of the positive psychology initiative, this groundbreaking new text brings positive social science to life through a comprehensive review of literature and well-crafted exercises that encourage readers to put positive psychology principles to the test. Positive Psychology : Scientific and Practical Applications of Human Strengths covers western and eastern approaches to understanding human strengths, along with the...

Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century

• ISBN:
• 0765610272

Drawing on newly accessible archives as well as memoirs and other sources, this biographical dictionary documents the lives of some two thousand notable figures in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe. A unique compendium of information that is not currently available in any other single resource, the dictionary provides concise profiles of the region's most important historical and cultural actors, from Ivo Andric to King Zog. Coverage...

Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

• ISBN:
• 0787964271
• Authors:
• Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal

In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame : how to organize and structure groups and teams to get...

Leading Organizational Learning

• ISBN:
• 0787972185
• Authors:
• Howard Morgan, Marc J. Rosenberg, Marcia Conner

Leading Organizational Learning brings together today’s top thinkers in organizational learning--including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledge sharing within their organizations.  This one-of-a-kind volume is filled with chapters that directly...

Divine Madness: Ten Stories of Creative Struggle

• ISBN:
• 0787981494
• Authors:
• Jeffrey A. Kottler

"Madness can afford the individual certain resources and abilities that are not available to others. The fantasy life, free flight of ideas, distortions of reality, and heightened senses . . . offer a unique perspective on the world." —From the Introduction Why do some extraordinary individuals overcome mental anguish and produce brilliant creative artistry that is often enhanced by their madness? New York Times best-selling author and noted...

Cholera (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791073033
• Authors:
• William Coleman, I. Edward Alcamo

Cholera is one of the oldest known and best-understood infectious diseases. Thriving in unclean water, it remains a prevalent killer in countries where sanitary water sources are scarce. "Cholera, Second Edition" describes the history of this infectious disease and discusses characteristics that enable the microorganism to cause serious health problems. This revised edition contains new illustrations and up-to-date information of this largely...

John Calvin (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers)

• ISBN:
• 0791081001
• Authors:
• Thomas J. Davis

Calvin became an important influence in the Reformation, and his theological beliefs, known as Calvinism, have become integral to many of today's major Protestant churches.

Desiderius Eramus (Spiritual Leaders and Thinkers)

• ISBN:
• 079108101X
• Authors:
• Samuel Willard Crompton

Erasmus challenged Martin Luther's stand on predestination and preferred to remain a member of the Roman Catholic Church while urging for its reform. Full colour photo essays illustrate the life and times of the religious figure.

The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships

• ISBN:
• 0805845488

Although sexuality is an integral part of close romantic relationships, research linking these two constructs has been less systematic than other areas pertaining to close relationships. To date, researchers in communication, sociology, family studies, psychology, and psychiatry, have made significant advances in both of these fields. The editors' goal is to integrate this research into one volume. They bring together major scholars from the...

Psychology's Grand Theorists: How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas

• ISBN:
• 0805851089
• Authors:
• Amy P. Demorest

Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and phenomenological--have resulted in large part from the personal experiences of their originators. Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers each believed that he had discovered the truth about human nature, yet their truths are entirely different. This book explores how the lives of these men...

Whistle-blowing in Organizations (Lea's Organization and Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0805859896
• Authors:
• Marcia P. Miceli, Terry Morehead Dworkin, Janet Pollex Near

This is a research-based book on whistle-blowing in organizations. The three noted authors describe studies on this important topic and the implications of the research and theory for organizational behavior, managerial practice, and public policy. In the past few years there have been critical developments, including corporate scandals, which have called public attention to whistle-blowing and have led to the first comprehensive federal...

Gandhi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth

• ISBN:
• 0807059099
• Authors:
• Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, Mahadev H. Desai

Translated by Mahadev Desai and with a New Preface The only authorized American edition Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentieth century. In a new foreword, noted peace expert and...

Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience

• ISBN:
• 0807079596
• Authors:
• Matt Kailey

Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life, and then he changed. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong doses of testosterone, Kailey began living life as the man he’d always wanted to be. In Just Add Hormones, he answers all the questions you’ve ever had about what it’s like to live as a transsexual. “Parts of Just Add Hormones dwell, wittily, on the author’s own...

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines

• ISBN:
• 0807829854
• Authors:
• Paul A. Kramer

In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration and anticolonial resistance. In this pathbreaking, transnational study, Paul Kramer reveals how racial...

How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

• ISBN:
• 080783002X
• Authors:
• Mark M. Smith

For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation. Based on painstaking...

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. (Studies in Social Medicine)

• ISBN:
• 0807830208
• Authors:
• Arleen Marcia Tuchman

German-born Marie Zakrzewska (1829-1902) was one of the most prominent female physicians of nineteenth-century America. Best known for creating a modern hospital and medical education program for women, Zakrzewska battled against the gendering of science and the restrictive definitions of her sex. In Science Has No Sex , Arleen Tuchman examines the life and work of a woman who continues to challenge historians of gender to this day. At a time...

Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England

• ISBN:
• 0816646325
• Authors:
• Daniel Juan Gil

Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by social affiliations but by bodies. In Before Intimacy , Daniel Juan Gil examines sixteenth-century English literary concepts of sexuality that frame erotic ties as neither bound by social customs nor transgressive of them, but rather as “loopholes” in people’s experiences and associations.  Engaging the poems of Wyatt, Sidney’s Astrophil and...

Advances in Dynamic Games and Their Applications: Analytical and Numerical Developments (Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games)

• ISBN:
• 081764833X
• Authors:
• Pierre Bernhard

This book an outgrowth of the 12th International Symposium on Dynamic Games presents current advances in the theory of dynamic games and their applications in several disciplines. The selected contributions cover a variety of topics ranging from purely theoretical developments in game theory, to numerical analysis of various dynamic games, and then progressing to applications of dynamic games in economics, finance, and energy supply....

Truck of Fools: A Testimonio of Torture and Recovery

• ISBN:
• 0826514642
• Authors:
• Carlos Liscano

The testimonio of one of Latin America’s leading writers, Truck of Fools is a searing personal account of incarceration and torture. It recalls the author’s thirteen years as a political prisoner of Uruguay’s neofascist regime during the 1970s and 1980s. An acutely perceptive poet-novelist, Carlos Liscano offers unique insight into not only the physical and psychological plight of the prisoner but also the mindset of his tormentors. ...

Frederick the Great's Army (Men-at-Arms)

• ISBN:
• 0850451515
• Authors:
• Albert Seaton

This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the men who served in the army of Frederick the Great. Major engagements in the First and Second Silesian Wars and The Seven Years’ War are all covered. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.

Attila and the Nomad Hordes (Elite)

• ISBN:
• 0850459966
• Authors:
• David Nicolle

Of all the conquerors who swept out of Central Asia, two names stand out in European memory – Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan the Mongol. Both are remembered for massacres and devastation; yet whereas Genghis is also famous for the laws he imposed on half of Asia and for the trade which flourished under Mongol rule, Attila's notoriety seems unrelieved by positive achievements. But what was Attila's short-lived empire really like? What happened...

European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

• ISBN:
• 0851157890
• Authors:
• Ewart Oakeshott

Both a work of scholarship, and a treasury of information, for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon's teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The author...

Jim Courtright of Fort Worth: His Life and Legend

• ISBN:
• 0875652921
• Authors:
• Robert DeArment

Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. One of the most colorful characters from the wild and woolly days of Fort Worth's Hell's Half Acre, Courtright was at various times city marshal, deputy sheriff, deputy U.S. marshal, private detective, hired killer, and racketeer. Today, he is almost forgotten, either as a gunfighter or a lawman, except in Fort...

Dearest Virginia: Love Letters from a Cavalry Officer in the South Pacific

• ISBN:
• 0875653111
• Authors:
• Sam Hunnicutt

A day-to-day account of the enduring passion of a man for his wife, the frustrations of separation caused by the war and the plans for a future in a saner but unknown world. Sixty years later, Lloyd and Virginia's tender memoir will touch the hearts of every generation.

No Such Country: Essays toward Home (Sightline Books)

• ISBN:
• 0877457964
• Authors:
• Elmar Lueth

No Such Country explores the idea of home—but a home without clear boundaries, a home in motion. A German who spent ten years in the U.S. and also witnessed the complexities of German reunification firsthand, Elmar Lueth writes about his idea of home, its shape and texture, which has shifted in unexpected and often startling ways. The autobiographical essays here focus on these shifts, tracing the geographical and psychological borders Lueth...

Sink or Float? Thought Problems in Math & Physics (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

• ISBN:
• 0883853396
• Authors:
• Keith Kendig

Sink or Float: Thought Problems in Math and Physics is a collection of problems drawn from mathematics and the real world. Its multiple-choice format forces the reader to become actively involved in deciding upon the answer. The book s aim is to show just how much can be learned by using everyday common sense. The problems are all concrete and understandable by nearly anyone, meaning that not only will students become caught up in some of the...

Uncommon Mathematical Excursions: Polynomia and Related Realms (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions)

• ISBN:
• 0883853418
• Authors:
• Dan Kalman

This text serves as a tour guide to little known corners of the mathematical landscape, not far from the main byways of algebra, geometry, and calculus. It is for the seasoned mathematical traveller who has visited these subjects many times and, familiar with the main attractions, is ready to venture abroad off the beaten track. For the old hand and new devotee alike, this book will surprise, intrigue, and delight readers with unexpected aspects...

The Neuronal Environment: Brain Homeostasis in Health and Disease (Contemporary Neuroscience)

• ISBN:
• 0896038823

Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada. Examines the functions of all the components involved, includes their perturbation during major disease states, and relates them to neuronal demands. Show neurons need constant interaction with other brain components to process information.

Data Clustering: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability)

• ISBN:
• 0898716233
• Authors:
• Guojun Gan; Chaoqun Ma; and Jianhong Wu

Cluster analysis is an unsupervised process that divides a set of objects into homogeneous groups. This book starts with basic information on cluster analysis, including the classification of data and the corresponding similarity measures, followed by the presentation of over 50 clustering algorithms in groups according to some specific baseline methodologies such as hierarchical, center-based, and search-based methods. As a result, readers and...

Linear and Nonlinear Optimization, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0898716616
• Authors:
• Igor Griva, Stephen G. Nash, Ariela Sofer

This book introduces the applications, theory, and algorithms of linear and nonlinear optimization, with an emphasis on the practical aspects of the material. Its unique modular structure provides flexibility to accommodate the varying needs of instructors, students, and practitioners with different levels of sophistication in these topics. The succinct style of this second edition is punctuated with numerous real-life examples and exercises,...

Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS

• ISBN:
• 0966638980
• Authors:
• Johann Voss

Originally written while the author was a prisoner of the US Army in 1945–46, Black Edelweiss is a boon to serious historians and WWII buffs alike. In a day in which most memoirs are written at half a century’s distance, the former will be gratified by the author’s precise recall facilitated by the chronologically short-range (a matter of one to seven years) at which the events were captured in writing. Both will appreciate and enjoy the...

An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator & Created a Hedge Fund

• ISBN:
• 0979549701
• Authors:
• Timothy Sykes

$2 trillion is invested in the hedge fund industry, and yet, due to industry regulations, the general public knows little about them. This book will change everything. Timothy turned $12,000 of Bar Mitzvah gift money into $1.65 million trading thousands of stocks from 1999-2002, managed the #1 Short Bias Hedge Fund from 2003-2006, starred in the television documentary Wall Street Warriors , and appeared regularly on CNBC all before the age of...

Scar Tissue

• ISBN:
• 1401307450
• Authors:
• Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller by one of rock’s most provocative figures Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis’s searingly honest memoir of a life spent in the fast lane. In 1983, four self-described "knuckleheads" burst out of the mosh-pitted mosaic of the neo-punk rock scene in L.A. with their own unique brand of cosmic hardcore mayhem funk. Over twenty years later, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, against all odds, have become one of...

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

• ISBN:
• 1401391478
• Authors:
• Michael J. Fox

There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him...

Partnership and the High Performance Workplace: A Study of Work and Employment Relations in the Aerospace Industry (The Future of Work)

• ISBN:
• 1403917531
• Authors:
• Andrew John Danford, Michael Richardson, Paul Stewart, Martin Upchurch, Stephanie Tailby

The promotion of partnership in the high performance workplace has become central to policy debates on the modernization of employment relations in British industry. This book provides critical insights into the dynamics of partnership by way of in-depth case studies of employee experience in an under-researched industry noted for its high concentrations of skilled workers and graduates.

The Economics of Organizational Design: Theory and Empirical Insights

• ISBN:
• 1403987416
• Authors:
• Massimo G. Colombo, Marco Delmastro

This volume closes the gap between a growing stream of theoretical work on the economics of firms' organization that addresses topics as the depth of the managerial hierarchy, the delegation of decision power, and the determinants of organizational innovation, and available empirical findings produced by qualitative work in management, business history and organizational sociology. It also relies on the results of large-scale quantitative...

Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire

• ISBN:
• 1405112107

Containing over 800 concise biographies of individuals known from the literary and epigraphic sources for the age of Alexander, this book is the only complete collection of its kind available in English. The entries range from leading commanders in Alexander’s army to the nobles and regional leaders of the Persian empire whom he encountered on his epic campaign. The most significant figures receive detailed coverage, and all entries contain...

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

• ISBN:
• 1405112247

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers. Engages its readers in an informed and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thought Embraces the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, and a broad range of institutions and...

Introduction to Mineral Exploration

• ISBN:
• 1405113170

This new, updated edition of Introduction to Mineral Exploration provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of mineral exploration. Successful mineral exploration requires excellence in geology as well as integration with a range of other scientific, engineering, and financial techniques. This book covers not only the nature of mineral exploration but also considers other factors essential to successful exploration, from target evaluation...

Wine Production: Vine to Bottle (Food Industry Briefing)

• ISBN:
• 1405113650
• Authors:
• Keith Grainger, Hazel Tattersall

The standard of wines made today is arguably higher than any time in the six thousand years of vinous history. The level of knowledge of producers and the ability to control the processes in wine production is also greatly improved.Authors Keith Grainger and Hazel Tattersall detail these processes, from vine to bottle, looking at key factors such as geography, winemaking techniques, the impact of decisions made upon style and quality, and...

Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash

• ISBN:
• 1416528547
• Authors:
• Eric Bischoff, Jeremy Roberts

Eric Bischoff has been called pro wrestling's most hated man. Booed, reviled, and burned in effigy, he's been struck by everything from beer bottles to fists. Though industry critics have scorned his spectacular rise and fall at World Championship Wrestling, Bischoff's influence still resonates. For years, Bischoff kept quiet while industry "pundits" distorted the truth about the infamous Monday Night Wars, basing their accounts on rumors and...

Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra

• ISBN:
• 1564586499
• Authors:
• Anne Hooper

Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra updates and reinterprets the 2,000 year--old sexual text in a fully illustrated guide that features specially commissioned photographs and information on ways to enrich and diversify one's sex life. In this classic volume of sexual learning, Anne Hooper brings together the best of the eastern sexual teaching, the Kama Sutra, the Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao to create a new classic that encourages an...

The Origins of Cultural Differences and Their Impact on Management

• ISBN:
• 1567201237
• Authors:
• Jack Scarborough

In cross-cultural business settings, the author suggests that it is not enough to know that behavior differs across cultures, but also how differences in values drive these behavior. To truly understand the differences among cultures, one must understand their origins, how they emerged on the world stage, the various economic, political, physical, social, and religious forces that shaped them. This is a unique book in that it traces the...

Women in Prison: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

• ISBN:
• 1576079295
• Authors:
• Cyndi Banks

Focusing on an often overlooked subject, this volume explores women's incarceration, from the first women-only prison to modern state-of-the-art facilities. It explores controversies, problems, and solutions, such as excessive discipline, the lack of training programs, sexual abuse, medical services, and visitation policies. The book also investigates key issues such as the background of inmates, the disproportionate number of African American...

Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline

• ISBN:
• 1576752321

In helping establish a new field of study in the organizational sciences, POS, this book examines a variety of positive dynamics in businesses and organizations that give rise to extraordinary outcomes. Positive Organizational Scholarship does not adopt one particular theory or framework, but encompasses any phenomenon that leads to positive, nurturing results. This collection of essays, written by established senior scholars, explains why and...

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment

• ISBN:
• 1578512506
• Authors:
• Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton

In today's business environment, strategy has never been more important. Yet research shows that most companies fail to execute strategy successfully. Behind this abysmal track record lies an undeniable fact: many companies continue to use management processes-top-down, financially driven, and tactical-that were designed to run yesterday's organizations. Now, the creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced...

Mark Twain Speaking

• ISBN:
• 1587294680

Originally published in 1976 and reissued in 2006 after many years out of print, Mark Twain Speaking assembles Twain's lectures, after-dinner speeches, and interviews from 1864 to 1909. Explanatory notes describe occasions, identify personalities, and discuss techniques of Twain's oral craftsmanship. A chronology listing date, place, and title of speech or type of engagement completes the collection.

Transformative Research and Evaluation

• ISBN:
• 1593859856
• Authors:
• Donna M. Mertens PhD

From distinguished scholar Donna M. Mertens, this book provides a framework for making methodological decisions and conducting research and evaluations that promote social justice. The transformative paradigm has emerged from?and guides?a broad range of social and behavioral science research projects with communities that have been pushed to the margins, such as ethnic, racial, and sexual minority group members and children and adults with...

Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice

• ISBN:
• 1594836175
• Authors:
• John Ashcroft

John Ashcroft's service as attorney general began with turmoil: a loss to a deceased challenger in his senate reelection campaign and a tumultuous confirmation battle. Then, on September 11, 2001, his job was transformed into the greatest leadership challenge an attorney general has ever faced. Highly classified intelligence briefings, secret surveillance of terror cells, and war councils with President Bush gave Ashcroft a uniquely...

Malaria (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 1604132817
• Authors:
• Bernard Marcus

With the mosquito as its vector, malaria has troubled humans throughout history. While kept under control in most of the developed world, it continues to ravage parts of Africa and Asia, where the majority of cases occur, and where the simple means of protection from the disease are out of reach for the much of the population. Caused by protozoan parasites from the genus Plasmodium, malaria is a chronic disease, plaguing sufferers for many...

Managing Value-based Organizations: It's Not What You Think (New Horizons in Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 184064981X
• Authors:
• Bruce Hoag, Cary L. Cooper

'This is a well researched and thoroughly readable work. As well as giving a comprehensive and clear history of organisations and their evolving forms, it manages to explain the implications of this to practitioners today. In particular the entire discussion of the value based organisation and what this means for the exploitation of knowledge, organisational learning and innovation are relevant to younger, knowledge based organisations. The...

Conflict in the Balkans 1991-2000 (Osprey Combat Aircraft 24)

• ISBN:
• 1841762903
• Authors:
• Tim Ripley

Exposing the true scale and significance of the deployment of air power in the Balkans, this book details the activities of NATO and UN aircraft as well as local pilots in the former Yugoslavia. From bombing by B-2 stealth bombers to air-to-air combat; from moving ground troops by helicopter to 'food-bombing' for refugees, air power has played a vital role in 'Europe's Vietnam', and there is little sign that the fires of conflict are being...

Reading Stargate SG-1 (Reading Contemporary Television)

• ISBN:
• 1845111834

Stargate SG-1 premiered in 1997 and over the course of eight seasons, the show has developed its own unique mythological superstructure. It has blossomed into a series driven by fierce fan loyalty, with lively Internet discussion groups, the proliferation of "textual poaching" in fan fiction and art, and popular annual conventions. This book is a lively critical celebration of both Stargate and its spinoff, Atlantis . Its characters, themes,...

The Trouble With Trust: The Dynamics of Interpersonal Trust Building

• ISBN:
• 1845422902
• Authors:
• Frederique Six

The Trouble with Trust poses the question: if trust is considered to be important for successful cooperation, why don’t high-trust work relationships predominate? Part of the explanation, the author argues, is that it is particularly difficult to build and maintain trust in work relations. This book addresses this problem by providing an in-depth, multi-level empirical analysis of the process by which trust builds up and breaks down in the...

Migrants and Urban Change: Newcomers to Antwerp, 1760-1860 (Perspectives in Economic and Social History)

• ISBN:
• 1851966463
• Authors:
• Anne Winter

Migration has long been considered an essentially modern phenomenon that only took off during the long nineteenth century when Europe transformed from a largely rural and agricultural society into a highly urbanized and industrialized one. Over the last few decades, research in different areas has led to significant revisions of this powerful image of a one-off rural-urban population transfer. Instead, it is found that population movement was a...

A Political Biography of Henry Fielding (Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies)

• ISBN:
• 1851969152
• Authors:
• J. A. Downie

Best known today as the author of three seminal novels, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones and Amelia, Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was the most successful playwright of his day until Walpole put an end to politics on the stage by passing the theatrical Licensing Act of 1737 - 'the greatest dramatist, with the single exception of Shakespeare, produced by England between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century', according to George Bernard Shaw. Turning...

Culture, Society And Sexuality: A Reader (Social Aspects of Aids Series)

• ISBN:
• 1857288106
• Authors:
• Richard Parker

Since the beginnings of time, people have been interested in sex - the form it takes, the pleasure it can give, the circumstances in which it occurs, and what it means - both for the individuals concerned and to society more generally. Often seen as a synonym for love, sometimes as an expression of power, and infrequently as a means of exploitation and abuse, sex is a complex and multi-faceted aspect of human behaviour that has been written...

Mind Your Manners, Third Edition: Managing Business Cultures in a Global Europe

• ISBN:
• 1857883144
• Authors:
• John Mole

Global markets demand a global corporate culture that capitalizes on diversity without imposing uniformity. The timely release of this new, expanded edition of Mind Your Manners reflects the renewed interest in fostering partnerships with the growing businesses in Europe—from the Baltics to the Balkans, from the Low Countries to the Latins.

Excel for the CEO (Excel for Professionals series)

• ISBN:
• 1932802177
• Authors:
• P. K. Hari

Presenting innovative Microsoft Excel techniques for top management professionals, this reference for company leaders who do not have the time to attend courses or read bulky books on the program provides basics, special shortcuts, and tips that cover the special features of Excel. Useful facts, trivia, and insider secrets about Excel are interspersed throughout the text, and readers have the choice of jumping directly to the section of...

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wine, Second Edition (2nd Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0028636619
• Authors:
• Phillip Seldon, Alpha Group

With this guide you can learn everything you need to know to choose and enjoy wines of all kinds. You can be confident about buying, trying, and talking about wine. The book provides solid information about the most important types of wines, friendly advice in an easy-to-understand format, and tips, definitions, and warnings to help you along the way.

Leave the Building Quickly: True Stories (P.S.)

• ISBN:
• 0060548525
• Authors:
• Cynthia Kaplan

Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of Why I'm Like This , once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day—including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population. Leave the Building Quickly is a hilarious,...

Alexander the Great: Journey to the End of the Earth (Eminent Lives)

• ISBN:
• 0060570121
• Authors:
• Norman F. Cantor

"Alexander's behavior was conditioned along certain lines -- heroism, courage, strength, superstition, bisexuality, intoxication, cruelty. He bestrode Europe and Asia like a supernatural figure." In this succinct portrait of Alexander the Great, distinguished scholar and historian Norman Cantor illuminates the personal life and military conquests of this most legendary of men. Cantor draws from the major writings of Alexander's contemporaries...

Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

• ISBN:
• 0060773340
• Authors:
• Fred Kaplan

For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered. In Lincoln , acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's sixteenth president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment. Like the other great canonical writers of American literature—a status he is gradually attaining—Lincoln...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

• ISBN:
• 0060852550
• Authors:
• Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our...

Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex

• ISBN:
• 0060874341
• Authors:
• John Baxter

Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku ? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on, or pasties . . . or would you rather just go commando at the Mine Shaft? From Deep Throat to Debbie Does Dallas , from the mile-high club to...

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

• ISBN:
• 0061251305
• Authors:
• Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright

It's a fact of life: birds flock, fish school, people "tribe." Every company, indeed every organization, is a tribe, or if it's large enough, a network of tribes--groups of 20 to 150 people in which everyone knows everyone else, or at least knows of everyone else. Tribes are more powerful than teams, companies, or even CEOs, and yet their key leverage points have not been mapped--until now. In Tribal Leadership , Dave Logan, John King, and...

Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai

• ISBN:
• 0061252727
• Authors:
• Ben Mezrich

From the author who brought you the massive New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House , this is the startling rags-to-riches story of an Italian-American kid from the streets of Brooklyn who claws his way into the wild, frenetic world of the oil exchange. After conquering the hallowed halls of Harvard Business School, he enters the testosterone-laced warrens of the Merc Exchange, the asylumlike oil exchange located in lower Manhattan. A...

Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story

• ISBN:
• 0061562424
• Authors:
• Ricardo S. Sanchez, Donald T. Phillips

Amid all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent—until now. In his groundbreaking new memoir, Wiser in Battle , Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, former commander of coalition forces in Iraq, reports back from the front lines of the global war on terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling exploration of America's historic military and foreign policy blunder. With unflinching candor, Sanchez...

Straw: Finding My Way

• ISBN:
• 0061704202
• Authors:
• Darryl Strawberry

Former baseball slugger Darryl Strawberry, whose achievements on the field were often overshadowed by his struggles off the field, recounts the highs, the lows, and the lessons of hope and survival he learned along the way. The youngest son of Henry and Ruby Strawberry, Darryl grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Los Angeles, where he channeled his energy into baseball and basketball. The New York Mets drafted him in 1980, and he won the...

Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines

• ISBN:
• 0066619793
• Authors:
• David H. Freedman

That's what every business wants to be.  And that's why the U.S. Marines excel in every mission American throws at them, no matter how tough the odds.  In Corps Business , journalist David H. Freeman identifies the Marine's simple but devastatingly effective principles for managing people and resources -- and ultimately winning.  Freedman discusses such techniques as "the rule of three," "managing by end state," and the "70% solution," to...

Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents

• ISBN:
• 0123744849

This exciting book covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used as weapons of mass destruction and employed in conflicts, warfare and terrorism. Including findings from experimental as well as clinical studies, this one-of-a-kind handbook is prepared in a very user- friendly format that can easily be followed by students, teachers and researchers, as well as lay people. Stand alone chapters on individual chemicals and major topics allow...

Observers for Linear Systems (Mathematics in Science and Engineering)

• ISBN:
• 0125277806
• Authors:
• John O'Reilly

My aim, in writing this monograph, has been to remedy this omission by presenting a comprehensive and unified theory of observers for continuous-time and discrete -time linear systems. The book is intended for post-graduate students and researchers specializing in control systems, now a core subject in a number of disciplines. Forming, as it does, a self-contained volume it should also be of service to control engineers primarily interested in...

Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate America

• ISBN:
• 0130084220
• Authors:
• Joel M. Shulman, Thomas T. Stallkamp

Large, mature companies always become trapped at some point in the declining stages of what has become known as the corporate life cycle. Historically this barrier to continued growth has been, and is still, as unavoidable as death and taxes. In Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller, Joel Shulman, a leading researcher on entrepreneurship, teams up with Thomas T. Stallkamp, one of the world's most effective executives, to introduce a powerful new...

Fame and Fortune: How Successful Companies Build Winning Reputations

• ISBN:
• 0130937371
• Authors:
• Charles J. Fombrun, Cees B. M. Van Riel

Companies build reputations in the market place. Some do it well, others don't. Even well-managed, profitable, quality companies don't. The how and why of successful reputation building is what this book is about. What specific actions must companies take to build a positive reputation in the market place? How can a company measure the success of its attempts to build a positive reputation in the market place as well.

Coping with Toxic Managers, Subordinates ... and Other Difficult People: Using Emotional Intelligence to Survive and Prosper

• ISBN:
• 0131409956
• Authors:
• Roy H. Lubit

Some people are toxic: narcissistic, aggressive, inflexible, unethical, ready to scapegoat, capable of transforming any workplace into an unending nightmare. How do you cope with such individuals, while protecting both your career AND your sanity? Simplistic, cookie-cutter solutions don't work. In Coping with Toxic Managers , world-renowned psychiatrist and organizational consultant Roy Lubit shows you techniques that will. Drawing on his...

Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change

• ISBN:
• 013146745X
• Authors:
• Lawrence G. Hrebiniak

Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know far more about developing strategy than about executing it -- and overcoming the difficult political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers the first comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. Drawing on his...

What Happy Companies Know: How the New Science of Happiness Can Change Your Company for the Better

• ISBN:
• 0131858572
• Authors:
• Dan Baker, Cathy Greenberg, Collins Hemingway

Happy companies are winning companies. Well-adjusted, psychologically healthy companies collaborate better. They innovate more effectively. They change faster. They see reality with exceptional clarity, but they know how to address it positively. They uncover opportunities where others fixate on obstacles and blame. What Happy Companies Know reveals the five crucial elements that happy companies share in common...and shows how to lead any...

Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal?: Avoiding the Chain of Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Organization

• ISBN:
• 0131913646
• Authors:
• Robert Mittelstaedt

What catastrophes have in common -- and how to keep them from happening to you! Introducing M3: the first systematic approach to Managing mistakes so they don't lead to disaster Building systems that prevent 'failure chains' from spiraling out of control Avoiding failures in preparation, strategy, execution, and culture Reducing the impact and cost of the mistakes you do make Also includes coverage of the unique 'mistake chains' facing...

Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

• ISBN:
• 0192854577
• Authors:
• Bhikhu Parekh

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest. He led the Indian National Congress party in three major campaigns against British rule, each culminating in his arrest. In Gandhi, a...

Visceral Sensory Neuroscience: Interoception

• ISBN:
• 0195136012
• Authors:
• Oliver G. Cameron M.D. Ph.D., W.D. Hamilton, Jonathan Abrams, Donald Hunninghake, Robert Knopp, RPSGB, Alison M. Beaney, Jenkins, Margaret T. Shannon, Billie Ann Wilson, Carolyn L. Stang

It has been known for over a century that there is an afferent(body-to-brain), as well as an efferent(brain-to-body), component to the visceral-atonomic nervous system. Despite the fundamental importance of bodily afferent information- sometimes called interoception- to central nervous system control of visceral organ function, emotional-motivational processes, and dysfunction of these processes, including psychosomatic disorders, its role did...

Last Rights: Liquidating a Company (Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis Series)

• ISBN:
• 0195306988
• Authors:
• Ben Branch, Hugh Ray, Robin Russell

This book deals with the end-game for a business. No business entity lasts forever and anyone faced with the task of liquidating a business at the end of its run needs to know that a liquidation doesn't present an insurmountable problem. In fact, substantial value is often overlooked. This book explains the various options for liquidations and the pros and cons for each possibility. The book also can be used as a clear how-to guide for someone...

War and Competition between States (The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, Theme a)

• ISBN:
• 0198202148

In the five hundred years covered by this volume there was scarcely a year that passed without either war or some demonstration of hostility between the many sovereign powers that governed Europe. This volume in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series focuses on the crucial role of war in the formation of state systems.

The Consequences of Decision-Making

• ISBN:
• 0199206287
• Authors:
• Nils Brunsson

This book collects a wide range of the most important writing on decision-making by one of Europe's leading organization theorists, brought together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction from the author.

The Phonology and Morphology of Arabic (The Phonology of the World's Languages)

• ISBN:
• 0199257590
• Authors:
• Janet C. E. Watson

This is an account of the phonology and morphology of modern spoken Arabic, the first to be published in any language and based largely on the author's research. Dr Watson's approach is theoretically innovative and aware, but accessible to Arabic language specialists outside linguistics. Broad in coverage, this is an important and pioneering book.

The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems

• ISBN:
• 0199275262
• Authors:
• Claudio Ciborra

How to use information and communication technologies in organizations and how to manage their impact has been the traditional domain of computer specialists and management consultants. The former have offered multiple ways to represent, model, and build applications that would streamline and accelerate data flows, while the latter have been busy linking the deployment of ICT's with strategy and the redesign of business processes. This book...

Thinking Teams / Thinking Clients

• ISBN:
• 0231116845
• Authors:
• Anne Opie

Addressing a key concern in human service and other organizational settings concerned with effective teamwork, this book offers a new paradigm for conceptualizing the subject. Based on qualitative research conducted with teams working with the chronically ill, elderly, and with high-risk psychiatric patients, Anne Opie has developed a method of working with teams that focuses on teamwork as "knowledge work" and is applicable to a variety of...

English Words: A Linguistic Introduction (The Language Library)

• ISBN:
• 0631230319
• Authors:
• Heidi Harley

Where do new words come from? How are words put together? How do we assign meaning to words? These are among the most compelling questions for students of language and linguistics. English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. Assuming little or no background in linguistics, Harley approaches the study of words from several directions, including...

Food in the Ancient World (Ancient Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 0631235515
• Authors:
• John M. Wilkins, Shaun Hill

In Food in the Ancient World , a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking. Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD. Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order. Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites. Describes religious sacrifices,...

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Dictionary of Scientific Biography (8 Vols))

• ISBN:
• 0684313200

Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love

• ISBN:
• 0694519758
• Authors:
• Thomas Moore

In our age of science and psychology it's tempting to think of human sexuality in terms of biology and interpersonal relationships. But this new book by Thomas Moore regards sex as an experience of the soul and emphasizes the themes of fantasy, desire, meaning, and morality. In The Soul of Sex, Moore turns especially to religion, mythology, literature, rites, stories, and visual imagery that see in sex some of the most profound mysteries of...

Act on It! Solving 101 of the Toughest Management Challenges

• ISBN:
• 0738202452
• Authors:
• Sam Deep, Lyle Sussman

Paperback: 228 pages Publisher: Perseus Books Group (April 1, 2000) Language: English ISBN: 0738202452 Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches Chatty, little "quick-answer" books can often rub the wrong way, with their underlying assumption that all problems can be solved with the same type of solution, and that you, the reader, are a little slow not to have gathered this already. Working against the odds, Act on It comes out on top of the...

Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

• ISBN:
• 0738208248
• Authors:
• William Bridges

From the most trusted voice on transition, a revised edition of the classic practical guide to dealing with the human side of organizational change. The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of corporate mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring hitting the news every day. Yet as veteran consultant William Bridges maintains, the situational changes are not as difficult for companies to make as the psychological...

Heart In Hand

• ISBN:
• 0738806684
• Authors:
• Donald W. Miller, Donald W. Miller Jr.

This book presents my personal reflections on the nature of life. I offer here my views on sex, death, love, God, and the importance of music, and art in general. This book will be of particular interest to students of Schopenhauer and Woody Allen fans.

The Connected Leader: Creating Agile Organisations for People, Performance and Profit

• ISBN:
• 074944830X
• Authors:
• Emmanuel Gobillot

In the "people economy" of the 21st century, organizations are made up of networks, not traditional hierarchies. In order to connect these networks, leaders must function as brokers rather than sales people, negotiating with each group to reach a common goal. Emmanuel Gobillot provides the framework for a more informal, holistic approach to management, showing how to connect social networks through trust, shared agendas and open dialogue. Crisp...

The The Connected Leader: Creating Agile Organizations for People, Performance and Profits

• ISBN:
• 0749452765
• Authors:
• Emmanuel Gobillot

Traditional organizational boundaries limit our ability to deliver results.  Emmanuel Gobillot argues that many of the old leadership recipes are outdated and don't take into account changes in the work environment and informal social networks within the organization.  Taking a new approach to leadership theory, the author argues that modern leaders engage with employees and improve performance by building on trust, by giving meaning to...

Ship Handling: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 0750685301
• Authors:
• David J House

Suitable as a training manual and a day-to-day reference, Shiphandling is the comprehensive and up to date guide to the theory and practice of ship handling procedures. Its covers the requirements of all STCW-level marine qualifications, provides expert guidance on all the hardware that marine professionals will make use of in the control and operation of their vessel and offers a broad focus on many shiphandling scenarios. ? Covers all key...

Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France

• ISBN:
• 0754659240
• Authors:
• Amy Wygant

Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a span of three hundred years from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman does, that is, became something that she has. The...

The New Sotheby's Wine Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0756613248
• Authors:
• Tom Stevenson

Perfect for novices, wine enthusiasts, or experts, this book's easy-to-use style and practical advice make it an unrivaled visual reference. Updated and expanded with the latest information on all the wine-producing areas of the world.

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages

• ISBN:
• 0787675857

Alexander the Great (Ancient World Leaders)

• ISBN:
• 0791072193
• Authors:
• Samuel Willard Crompton

Describes the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great of Macedonia.

Anthrax (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791073025
• Authors:
• Janet M. Decker

Anthrax became a household word in 2001 when spores of the bacterium were delivered via the U.S. postal service by terrorists. The very mention of anthrax has the potential to set off a panic, but what is anthrax, what are its symptoms, and why is it so dangerous? "Anthrax, Second Edition" looks at the history of this deadly disease, from biblical times to the present, and investigates possible treatments to protect humans against it. This...

Typhoid Fever (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791074641
• Authors:
• Donald Emmeluth

HIV/Aids (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791077179
• Authors:
• Consuelo M. Beck-Sague, Caridad Beck

Since its emergence in the United States in the 1980s, AIDS and its precursor, HIV, has been a growing epidemic. Although much is now known about the virus, scientists have yet to discover a cure or a vaccine. This book explores the biology and transmission of the virus, as well as the history and epidemiology.

Campylobacteriosis (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 079107899X
• Authors:
• Bibiana Law, I. Edward Alcamo

Campylobacteriosis is the leading cause of bacterial foodborne illness in the United States. Learn about this common foodborne illness, its symptoms and how it can be prevented.

Leprosy (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791085023
• Authors:
• Alfica Sehgal

Leprosy, a bacterial disease that usually afflicts the skin, nerves, respiratory tract, and eyes, has plagued humanity since history was recorded.

Staphylococcus Aureus Infections (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791085082
• Authors:
• Lisa Freeman-Cook, Kevin D. Freeman-Cook

Michelangelo: Painter, Sculptor, And Architect (Makers of the Middle Ages and Renaissance)

• ISBN:
• 0791086275
• Authors:
• Tim McNeese

His accomplishments ran from sonnets and love poems to the most famous sculptures, paintings, and buildings ever created. Michelangelo is frequently considered the Creator of the Renaissance.

Botulism (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791086747
• Authors:
• Donald Emmeluth

Avian Flu (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791086755
• Authors:
• Jeffrey N. Sfakianos, I. Edward Alcamo

In the last few years, the avian flu, or bird flu, has become a growing worry around the world. Although avian influenza once infected only birds, the new avian flu virus that has emerged from Asia can be passed on from birds to humans with deadly results. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are closely monitoring what could be the next deadly flu pandemic, especially the possibility of the virus...

Infectious Fungi (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791086801
• Authors:
• David L. Brock

Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791091880
• Authors:
• Patrick, Ph.D. Guilfoile, I. Edward Alcamo

Infectious Diseases of the Mouth (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791092429
• Authors:
• Scott C. Kachlany

Streptococcus (Group B) (Deadly Diseases and Epidemics)

• ISBN:
• 0791092437
• Authors:
• Tara C. Smith

Group B Streptococcus is a type of bacteria that mostly affects infants, the elderly, and those with immune systems compromised due to other diseases. It can cause severe infection and meningitis. Approximately 19,000 cases occur annually in the United States, and it's the most common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns. This informative book enhances readers' understanding of this didease by examining how this type of bacteria...

Xerxes (Ancient World Leaders)

• ISBN:
• 0791096025
• Authors:
• Dennis Abrams

In the year 486 BCE, upon the death of his father, Darius I, Xerxes I became king of the Persian Empire. His kingdom, extending from present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan in the east to Egypt and Libya in the west, was the largest empire of the classical age. However, all was not well within the Persian Empire, with the provinces of Egypt and Babylon in a state of rebellion and the tiny city-states of Greece refusing Xerxes' rule. Set nearly...

Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees' First Dynasty

• ISBN:
• 0803229747
• Authors:
• Daniel R. Levitt

Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow to be general manager in 1920, the Yankees had never won a pennant. They won their first in 1921 and during Barrow’s tenure went on to win thirteen more as well as ten World Series. This biography of the incomparable Barrow is also the story of how he built the most successful sports franchise in American history. Barrow spent fifty years in baseball. He was in the middle of virtually every major...

Leslie A. White: Evolution and Revolution in Anthropology (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)

• ISBN:
• 0803236816
• Authors:
• William J. Peace

Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A. White (1900–1975). Between the early 1940s and mid-1960s, White’s work was widely discussed, and he was among the most frequently cited American anthropologists in the world. After writing several respected ethnographic works about the Pueblo Indians, White broke ranks with anthropologists who favored such cultural histories and began to...

Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard (American Lives)

• ISBN:
• 0803293364
• Authors:
• Fan Shen

In 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his compatriots had tortured and murdered a doctor whose house he’d helped raid and whose beautiful daughter he secretly adored. A story of coming of age in the midst of monumental historical upheaval, Shen’s Gang of One is more than a memoir of...

Diversity Resistance in Organizations (Applied Psychology)

• ISBN:
• 0805859632

This is a groundbreaking volume that provides informed, balanced yet frank discussion of US workplace diversity and diversity resistance issues. The chapters in this book put a name on behaviors and practices that have existed in the workplace for a long time, yet until recently have had no name. Further, the majority of the chapters innovatively link existing psychological and organizational factors such as fear, uncertainty, power, emotions,...

The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World

• ISBN:
• 1844074153
• Authors:
• Alan AtKisson

ISIS–Indicators, Systems, Innovation, Strategy–is a potent method for creating a whole-systems view, strategizing successfully for innovative change and accelerating progress towards sustainability. ISIS is an approach that builds on fifteen years of successful practice, with case studies from around the world, and easy-to-use training and planning tools that translate theory into practice in a way that provides both practical advice and...

Ahmad Riza Khan (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851683593
• Authors:
• Usha Sanyal

Introduces the legendary leader of the great 20th-century Sunni movement.

Shaykh Mufid (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851683836
• Authors:
• Tamima Bayhom-Daou

An account of the great Shi'ite scholar-theologian.

Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851683852
• Authors:
• Shahzad Bashir

Captures the achievements of this Sufi thinker and founder of gnostic hurufism.

Ibn Arabi (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851683879
• Authors:
• William Chittick

Renowned expert William Chittick covers the life and works of this legendary Sufi writer.

Ghazali (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 185168414X
• Authors:
• Eric Ormsby

This fascinating work profiles Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), the foremost Islamic scholar and mystic of the medieval period. Appointed head of the Nizamiyyah College at Baghdad, he attracted interested audiences from across the Islamic world. Due to a spiritual crisis, he went into self-imposed exile, during which he wrote the Sufi masterpiece, Revival of the Sciences of Religion. This is a stimulating introduction to the great man's life...

Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851684158
• Authors:
• Muhammad Qasim Zaman

Ashraf `Ali Thanawi (1863-1943) was one of the most prominent religious scholars in Islamic history. Author of over a thousand books on different aspects of Islam, his work sought to defend the Islamic scholarly tradition and to articulate its authority in an age of momentous religious and political change. In this authoritative biography, Muhammad Qasim Zaman offers a comprehensive and highly accessible account of Thanawi's multifaceted career...

Karim Khan Zand (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851684352
• Authors:
• John R. Perry

A forward thinking and notably popular leader, Karim Khan Zand (1705-1779) was the founder of the Zand dynasty in Iran. In this insightful profile of a man before his time, esteemed academic John Perry shows how by opening up international trade, employing a fair fiscal system and showing respect for existing religious institutions, Karim Khan succeeded in creating a peaceful and prosperous state in a particularly turbulent epoch of history.

Sa'di: The Poet of Life, Love and Compassion (Makers of the Muslim World)

• ISBN:
• 1851684735
• Authors:
• Homa Katouzian

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa'di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion. Filled with extracts of the poet's melodious and insightful writing, and critical analysis thereof, this revealing biography examines why he was so idolized until the 1950s, and why since then he has fallen into relative obscurity.

The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam

• ISBN:
• 1851685049
• Authors:
• Mehdi Aminrazavi

Nourished by an admiration of Khayyam that has been with him since childhood, Aminrazavi's comprehensive new biography reintroduces the figure of Khayyam, and his great achievements, to the Western world. Blending a readable and accessible narrative with scholarly ambition and years of research, Aminrazavi's work covers not only Khayyam's well-known poetry, but also his extraordinary life, his neglected philosophical writings and the impact of...

Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

• ISBN:
• 1851969063
• Authors:
• Rebekah Higgitt

Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the 'scientist'. At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both by those who wished to undermine the traditional, idealised depiction of scientific genius and those who felt obliged to defend Newtonian hagiography. Higgitt...

Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters

• ISBN:
• 1852854235
• Authors:
• Leslie Mitchell

After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since World War I, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. Leslie Mitchell’s biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer...

How to Be a Property Millionaire

• ISBN:
• 1857038576
• Authors:
• Annie Hulley

TV star Annie Hulley has amassed a property portfolio worth in excess of six million pounds in just three years. In this book she explains how she achieved it, the mistakes she learnt along the way, and what she's gleaned from the experience. TV star Annie Hulley has amassed a substantial property portfolio in just three years. In this book she explains how she achieved it, the mistakes she learned along the way, and what she's gleamed from the...

The Solutions Focus: The SIMPLE Way to Positive Change (People Skills for Professionals)

• ISBN:
• 1857882709
• Authors:
• Paul Z Jackson

Solutions......No Problem. When you need to discover what works at work, here is a powerful yet subtle approach that gets right to the heart of change in people, teams, and organizations. By placing the focus squarely on what's working, rather than on what's wrong, THE SOLUTIONS FOCUS delivers a radically pragmatic and refreshing new way for anyone in the workplace to create their preferred future--now!

Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease Made Simple (Cardiopulmonary Medicine from Imperial College Press)

• ISBN:
• 1860941249
• Authors:
• Siew Yen Ho, Michael L. Rigby, Robert Henry Anderson

Congenital malformations of the heart are often dismissed as a form of complex heart disease, which is too difficult to understand, and is best referred to the specialists. The authors of this handbook, however, aim to dispel this myth. The advent of cross-sectional and, more recently, three-dimensional echocardiography, enables the structural malformations to be visualised virtually non-invasively. Without a thorough understanding of the...

Chemsitry Was Their Life: Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880-1949

• ISBN:
• 186094986X
• Authors:
• Geoff Rayner-Canham

British chemistry has traditionally been depicted as a solely male endeavor. However, this perspective is untrue: the allure of chemistry has attracted women since the earliest times. Despite the barriers placed in their path, women studied academic chemistry from the 1880s onwards and made interesting or significant contributions to their fields, yet they are virtually absent from historical records.Comprising a unique set of biographies of 100...

Landesmania!

• ISBN:
• 190479906X
• Authors:
• P. Trevena

An intimate portrait of a delayed career, an open marriage and a life led from the heart. This is the true story of an American pioneer and Soho Gentleman Bohemian. Born in St Louis 84 years ago, he was a trend-setter for the Beat movement of the 40s and 50s, publisher and editor in New York of the provocative Neurotica magazine and writer of the only play to explore that time, The Nervous Set. Though he was ostensibly an antiques dealer by...

Intelligent Organizations: Powerful Models for Systemic Management

• ISBN:
• 3540298762
• Authors:
• Markus Schwaninger

This book offers an innovative approach to overcome the crisis of management in the face of complexity. The systems approach to management will help to develop the new kind of intelligent organizations so urgently needed. This approach is a powerful tool, grounded in organizational cybernetics and systems dynamics. The approach will allow managers and advanced students of management cope with organizational complexity in an effective way. The...

Reliability Engineering: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 3540493883
• Authors:
• Alessandro Birolini

This book shows how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability & availability of components, equipment, systems. It presents the state-of-the-art of reliability engineering, both in theory and practice, and is based on the author's 30 years experience in this field, half in industry and half as Professor of Reliability Engineering at the ETH, Zurich. The structure of the book allows rapid access to practical results. Besides extensions...

Advances in Fractional Calculus: Theoretical Developments and Applications in Physics and Engineering

• ISBN:
• 1402060416
• Authors:
• J. Sabatier

In the last two decades, fractional (or non integer) differentiation has played a very important role in various fields such as mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, economics, control theory and signal and image processing. For example, in the last three fields, some important considerations such as modelling, curve fitting, filtering, pattern recognition, edge detection, identification, stability, controllability, observability and...

One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization

• ISBN:
• 1576753328
• Authors:
• Dee Hock

The worldwide success of VISA International, Dee Hock asserts, is due to its chaordic structure: it is owned by 22,000 member banks, which both compete with each other for 750 million customers and must cooperate by honoring one another’s $125 trillion in transactions annually across borders and currencies. One From Many takes the never-before-told story of how that structure came into being, and updates it for today. The book also highlights...

Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace: Building Effective Relationships in Your Organization

• ISBN:
• 1576753778
• Authors:
• Dennis S Reina, Michelle L Reina

More than ever, there is a need for trust in the workplace. After all, business is conducted via relationships, and trust is the foundation to effective relationships. Yet, trust means different things to different people and this is a big part of the problem. Collectively drawing on thirty years of research and experience with organizations around the world, Dennis and Michelle Reina put people on the same page. The Reinas provide a simple and...

Knowledge for Development?: Comparing British, Japanese, Swedish and World Bank Aid

• ISBN:
• 1842773240
• Authors:
• Kenneth King, Simon McGrath

In 1996, the World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, declared that his organization would henceforth be "the knowledge bank." This statement marks the beginning in earnest of a new discourse of knowledge-based aid, which has spread rapidly across the development field. This book is the first detailed attempt to analyze this new discourse and practice. Through an examination of four agencies--the World Bank, the British Department for...

Machining Dynamics: Fundamentals, Applications and Practices (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)

• ISBN:
• 1846283671
• Authors:
• Kai Cheng

Machining dynamics play an essential role in the performance of machine tools and machining processes in manufacturing. Current advances in computational modelling, sensors, diagnostic equipment and analysis tools, 3D surface metrology and manufacturing science are giving researchers and practising engineers a new perspective on the machining process. Machining Dynamics: Fundamentals and Applications reflects the new integrated approach to...

Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009, ... Notes in Business Information Processing)

• ISBN:
• 3642029868

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development, SEAFOOD 2009, held in Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009. The 13 papers presented together with two keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The areas covered include industry challenges and best practices in offshore software development, measurement and...

Catastrophes in Nature and Society: Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems

• ISBN:
• 9812569170
• Authors:
• A. I. Fet; Viktor A. Okhonin

Many people are concerned about crises leading to disasters in nature, in social and economic life. The book offers a popular account of the causative mechanisms of critical states and breakdown in a broad range of natural and cultural systems -- which obey the same laws -- and thus makes the reader aware of the origin of catastrophic events and the ways to avoid and mitigate their negative consequences. The authors apply a single mathematical...

My Life's Journey: Reflections of an Academic

• ISBN:
• 9812708111
• Authors:
• Wai-Fah Chen

Dr Wai-Fah Chen - a Chinese-born American academic and widely recognized structural engineering specialist in the field of mechanics, materials, and computing - has certainly led a fascinating life. A well-respected leader in the field of plasticity, structural stability, and structural steel design over the past half-century, he has made major contributions to introduce the mathematical theory of plasticity to civil engineering practice,...

Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science and Information Processing (Lecture Notes Series, Institute for Mathematical Sciences National University of Singapore)

• ISBN:
• 9812709053
• Authors:
• Say Song Goh, Amos Ron, Zuowei Shen

The explosion of data arising from rapid advances in communication, sensing and computational power has concentrated research effort on more advanced techniques for the representation, processing, analysis and interpretation of data sets. In view of these exciting developments, the program Mathematics and Computation in Imaging Science and Information Processing was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of...

Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax

• ISBN:
• 0060528478
• Authors:
• Kate Berridge

Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in history, this intelligent, pragmatic businesswoman has also had an indelible impact on contemporary culture, planting the seed of our obsession with celebrity. In Madame Tussaud , Kate Berridge...

Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion

• ISBN:
• 0060761563
• Authors:
• Jennifer Saginor

You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women catering to your every need. You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who's always there for you. Welcome to the world of Playground , the true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion. By the time she was fourteen, she'd done countless drugs, had...

The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition

• ISBN:
• 0061579246
• Authors:
• John Delucie, Graydon Carter

A page-turning memoir from the chef of The Waverly Inn, New York City's vaunted celebrity gathering spot The Hunger is an insider's romp through the crazy life of the restaurant business, told by a journeyman chef who fought his way to the top. Trapped in a dead-end job, John DeLucie called it quits and invested his meager savings in a ten-week cooking class. Upon completion, armed with no professional experience and the barest of basic skills,...

The Kosher Sutra: Eight Sacred Secrets for Reigniting Desire and Restoring Passion for Life

• ISBN:
• 0061668354
• Authors:
• Shmuley Boteach

America has a contradictory relationship with sex. Sex is everywhere—advertisements, the Internet, magazines, and television—yet one third of all marriages in America are utterly sexless. Our over-exposure to sex has diluted the most powerful form of intimacy to such an extent that most couples have forgotten what passion feels like. In The Kosher Sutra , Shmuley Boteach, the New York Times bestselling author, delivers a much-needed guide to...

Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China with My Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant--and Save His Life

• ISBN:
• 0061708704
• Authors:
• Daniel Asa Rose

FROM THE FORWARD: "Elegantly written and deeply moving, it passes the laugh-out-loud test with flying colors. A classic contribution to the annals of cross-cultural comedy." FROM THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL: "Like nothing else you've read, pitch-perfect dialogue, hilarious and heartbreaking." FROM THE MIAMI HERALD: "Quirky, charming, Rose is a gifted writer and good company. The master of dialogue." FROM THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS: "With its humor,...

Nonlinear Digital Filters: Analysis and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0123725364
• Authors:
• W. K. Ling

This book provides an easy to understand overview of nonlinear behavior in digital filters, showing how it can be utilized or avoided when operating nonlinear digital filters. It gives techniques for analyzing discrete-time systems with discontinuous linearity, enabling the analysis of other nonlinear discrete-time systems, such as sigma delta modulators, digital phase lock loops and turbo coders. Features: . Uses new methods based on symbolic...

Rethinking Business Ethics: A Pragmatic Approach (The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)

• ISBN:
• 0195117360
• Authors:
• Sandra B. Rosenthal, Rogene A. Buchholz

Using classical American pragmatism, the authors provide a philosophical framework for rethinking the nature of the corporation--how it is embedded in its natural, technological, cultural, and international environments, emphasizing throughout its pervasive relational and moral dimensions. They explore the relationship of this framework to other contemporary business ethics perspectives, as well as its implications for moral leadership in...

Organizational Change in 100 Days: A Fast Forward Guide (Accompanying Guide)

• ISBN:
• 019515312X
• Authors:
• Elspeth J. Murray, Peter R. Richardson

In an age of rapidly changing technology, shifting global opportunities, and activist shareholders, executives are expected to respond quickly. These executives are seeking tools that will allow them to keep a step ahead of changes in the business environment, because they are critically aware of the fact that slow change equals slow death.Organizational Change in 100 Days: A Fast Forward Guide is one such tool. Developed to be used as a...

Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgee and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson

• ISBN:
• 0195181395
• Authors:
• Mark Elliott

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "carpetbagger," best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful portrait of a fearless lawyer, jurist, and writer, who fought for equality long after most Americans had abandoned the ideals of Reconstruction. Elliott provides a fascinating account of Tourgee's life, from...

Alexander the Great: The Greatest Ruler of the Ancient World (What's Their Story)

• ISBN:
• 0195214021
• Authors:
• Andrew Langley

The story of Alexander the Great is one of ambition, conquest, and glory. By the time he died at age 32, in 323 B.C., he commanded a vast empire that stretched from Greece in the west to India in the east. His remarkable personality shines through this heroic story of battles, sieges, and victories. What's Their Story? is a wonderful new series of beautifully illustrated picture-book biographies, featuring great leaders, heroes, pioneers,...

Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London

• ISBN:
• 0226978133
• Authors:
• Caitlin Zaloom

From New York to Singapore, from Chicago to London, the trading floors of the world’s financial markets are icons of global capitalism. Images of them are used on the news all the time—traders burying their heads in their hands when the market is down, their arms flailing in a frenzy when fortunes are rising—to convey the current state of the economy. But these marketplaces, and the cultural life that sustains them, are dissolving into the...

The Sexual Brain (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262121786
• Authors:
• Simon LeVay

Written with the same clarity, directness, and humor that have made Simon LeVay one of the most popular lecturers at Harvard Medical School and at the University of California, San Diego, The Sexual Brain examines the biological roots of human sexual behavior. It puts forward the compelling case that the diversity of human sexual feelings and behavior can best be understood in terms of the development, structure, and function of the brain...

The Letters of George Santayana, Book 4: 1928-1932 (The Works of George Santayana, Vol. 5)

• ISBN:
• 0262194791
• Authors:
• George Santayana

George Santayana published The Realm of Matter (1930) and The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931). He continued work on Book Three of Realms of Being , The Realm of Truth , and on his novel, The Last Puritan . Citing his commitment to his writing and his intention to retire from academia, he declined offers from Harvard University for the Norton Chair of Poetry and for a position as William James Professor of Philosophy, as well as offers for...

Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)

• ISBN:
• 0299222047
• Authors:
• Bertram Cohler

     Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing identity of gay men writing within a historical context. Distinguished scholar and psychoanalyst Bertram J. Cohler has carefully selected a diverse group of ten men, including historians, activists, journalists, poets, performance artists, and bloggers, whose life writing evokes the evolution of gay life in twentieth-century America. ...

Derzhavin: A Biography (Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies)

• ISBN:
• 0299224201
• Authors:
• Vladislav Khodasevich

Russian poet, soldier, and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin (1743–1816) lived during an epoch of momentous change in Russia—imperial expansion, peasant revolts, war with Turkey, and struggle with Napoleon—and he served three tsars, including Catherine the Great. Here in its first English translation is the masterful biography of Derzhavin by another acclaimed Russian man of letters, Vladislav Khodasevich.             Derzhavin...

Peter's War: A New England Slave Boy and the American Revolution

• ISBN:
• 0300119305
• Authors:
• Malcolm, Joyce Lee

A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the revolutionary army at the age of twelve, and how he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Yorktown and witnessed the surrender at Saratoga. Joyce Lee Malcolm describes Peter’s home life in...

Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness

• ISBN:
• 0300120109
• Authors:
• Joshua David Hawley

Often dismissed by scholars as an opportunistic politician whose ideas lacked historical import, Theodore Roosevelt has been underestimated as a thinker. But to disdain Roosevelt’s politics is to overlook his important and lasting contributions to the shape of modern America, says the author of this compelling new study of the 26th president of the United States. Joshua Hawley examines Roosevelt’s political thought more deeply than ever...

Eduardo Barreiros and the Recovery of Spain

• ISBN:
• 0300121091
• Authors:
• Hugh Thomas

A dramatic biography of the extraordinary Spanish industrialist and entrepreneur Eduardo Barreiros Born in an impoverished region of Galicia, possessed of little education and less money, Eduardo Barreiros (1919–1992) rose to become an immensely successful entrepreneur and one of Spain’s most prominent industrialists. In this engaging biography, the first on a Spanish entrepreneur in English, Hugh Thomas recounts Barreiros’s origins as an...

Statistical Quality Control for the Food Industry

• ISBN:
• 0306477289
• Authors:
• Merton R. Hubbard

Specifically targeted at the food industry, this state-of-the-art text/reference combines all the principal methods of statistical quality and process control into a single, up-to-date volume. In an easily understood and highly readable style, the author clearly explains underlying concepts and uses real world examples to illustrate statistical techniques. This Third Edition maintains the strengths of the first and second editions while adding...

Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea

• ISBN:
• 0306818078
• Authors:
• Desmond Seward

When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation’s army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Vespasian. He then served as an adviser to the Roman legions, running a network of spies inside Jerusalem, in the belief that the Jews’ only hope of survival lay in surrender to Rome.As a Jewish eyewitness who was given access to Vespasian’s...

Heidegger: A Beginner's Guide (Headway Guides for Beginners)

• ISBN:
• 034080324X
• Authors:
• Michael Watts

This handy series from Headway offers brief yet lucid introductions to the world’s cultural icons. Each book examines the life, the work, and the legends surrounding its subject, and key terms and concepts are highlighted and clearly explained. Additionally, each chapter ends with a review section for easy reference and to help consolidate the reader’s understanding of the text.

Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections

• ISBN:
• 0385422776
• Authors:
• Michael Jackson

The pop superstar presents a collection of twenty inspirational poems and twenty essays that discuss such issues as world hunger, homeless children, and the need for world peace. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.

Telling Sexual Stories

• ISBN:
• 0415102952
• Authors:
• Ken Plummer

Telling Sexual Stories explores the rites of a sexual storytelling culture. Taking three major examples--rape stories, coming-out stories, recovery stories--it examines the nature of these newly emerging narratives and the socio-historical conditions which give rise to them. It looks at the rise of the women's movement, the lesbian and gay movement and the ``recovery'' movement as harbingers of significant social change that encourage the...

Reshaping Change: A Processual Perspective (Understanding Organizational Change, 2)

• ISBN:
• 0415284090
• Authors:
• Patrick Dawson

A new and innovative approach to organizational change, giving a comprehensive analysis of the processual approach and a detailed commentary on the theory and practice of using a processual perspective in order to make sense of organization

California Wine For Dummies (For Dummies (Cooking))

• ISBN:
• 0470376074
• Authors:
• Ed McCarthy, Mary Ewing-Mulligan

Discover the nuances of California wines and increase your drinking pleasure Want to be a California wine connoisseur? This friendly guide gives you the knowledge you need to appreciate these fine wines, showing you how to taste them, select a good bottle, pair wine with food, and much more. You'll see why certain wine regions are renowned and how to further enrich your wine-drinking experience. California wine 101 — understand the range of...

Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

• ISBN:
• 0471405590
• Authors:
• Stuart C. Gilson

Praise for Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring "A helpful reference guide for managers facing the complex operational and financial issues raised in today’s competitive environment. Gilson’s case studies provide a real-world context against which corporate leaders can plan their restructuring strategies."–Arthur B. Newman, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group "Stuart Gilson’s analytical case studies have demystified...

Functional Metabolism: Regulation and Adaptation

• ISBN:
• 047141090X

In the post-genome era, questions concerning gene products, enzymes, and metabolism are returning to the forefront of life science research. Genetic information on its own does not fully account for an enzyme’s kinetic and regulatory properties or for the behavior of the enzymes within its particular cellular milieu. Unanswered questions about the regulation, integration, and adaptation of metabolism have led to a resurgence of interest in...

Ground Control and Improvement

• ISBN:
• 0471552313
• Authors:
• Petros P. Xanthakos, Lee W. Abramson, Donald A. Bruce

A comprehensive compilation concerned with a variety of modern methods being used worldwide to improve soil and rock conditions supporting new and remedial construction. Ground water lowering and drainage techniques, soil compaction, excavation support methods, permeation and jet grouting are among the many topics discussed. More than 100 tables and 650 figures illustrate the text.

A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

• ISBN:
• 0520081722
• Authors:
• Phyllis Ntantala

"Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of struggle and uncertainty."--from the Preface Born into the small social elite of black South Africa, Phyllis Ntantala did not face the grinding...

Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

• ISBN:
• 0521833973
• Authors:
• Teresa da Silva Lopes

Brands help explain why, in a world focused on science and new technology, several of the world's multinational corporations have little to do with either. Rather they are old firms with little critical investment in patents or copyrights. For these firms, the critical intellectual property is trademarks. Global Brands explains how the world's largest multinationals in alcoholic beverages achieved global leadership; the predominant corporate...

Multiculturalism in Global Society

• ISBN:
• 063122193X
• Authors:
• Peter Kivisto

Explores the concepts and debates surrounding the complex modern phenomenon of multiculturalism, and its varied effects of the advanced industrial nations of the world. Softcover available.

Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain: The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)

• ISBN:
• 067400793X
• Authors:
• Philip Lieberman

Human Language and Our Reptilian Brain The Subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax, and Thought Philip Lieberman This book is an entry into the fierce current debate among psycholinguists, neuroscientists, and evolutionary theorists about the nature and origins of human language. A prominent neuroscientist here takes up the Darwinian case, using data seldom considered by psycholinguists and neurolinguists to argue that human language--though more...

Assessing Business Excellence, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 0750655178

Assessing Business Excellence presents a strategic framework for business excellence and total quality management and shows how you can be actively involved in continuous improvement by systematically reviewing your business activities and results against holistic business excellence frameworks. For all practitioners who seek to use total quality management to improve their organization's effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness, this title...

Managing People, Third Edition (CMI Diploma in Management Series)

• ISBN:
• 0750656182
• Authors:
• Rosemary Thomson

'Managing People' addresses the perspective of the individual manager whose role includes the management of people, as well as issues concerning the organization as a whole. The theme of the book is about responding to organizational and environmental change and the people skills that will be required for this in the twenty-first century. A system model of how the different parts of HR fit together is included, with the acknowledgement that...

A Climate of Success

• ISBN:
• 0750683686
• Authors:
• Roderic Gray

Could your organization be a better place to work? What effect would that have on the quality and quantity of what gets done? This book examines the concept of organizational climate ('what it feels like to work here') in a readable and accessible way without sacrificing academic rigour. Using case studies to illustrate the causes and consequences of various climate factors, it makes practical suggestions for how improvements can be made - to...

The Indian Ceo: A Portrait of Excellence (Response Books)

• ISBN:
• 076193362X
• Authors:
• Signe Spencer, Tharuma Rajah, Shyamala A Narayan, Seetharaman Mohan, Gaurav Lahiri

Recognizing the pivotal role of leadership in building sustainable corporations, this book analyzes the key qualities that go into the making of a successful CEO in the Indian business environment. Based on a landmark study which covered some of the most successful business leaders in India, The Indian CEO uses the framework developed by David McClelland of Harvard University, to determine key competencies necessary for Indian business leaders...

Physiology of Woody Plants, Second Edition

• ISBN:
• 012424162X
• Authors:
• Theodore T. Kozlowski, Stephen G. Pallardy

This completely revised classic volume is an up-to-date synthesis of the intensive research devoted to woody plants. Intended primarily as a text for students and a reference for researchers, this interdisciplinary book should be useful to a broad range of scientists from agroforesters, agronomists, and arborists to plant pathologists, ecophysiologists, and soil scientists. Anyone interested in plant physiology will find this text invaluable....

Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today

• ISBN:
• 0195162439
• Authors:
• Daniel B. Botkin

America's great epic of exploration--the journey of Lewis and Clark--was also one of the most successful scientific expeditions in history. In notebooks filled with vivid and remarkably accurate descriptions of rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, native Americans, and wildlife, Lewis and Clark gave the world an image of wild country that has rarely been equaled. In this richly illustrated volume, which features more than one hundred...

Parasitism and Ecosystems

• ISBN:
• 0198529872

For several years there has been a growing interest in understanding the dynamics of parasites in ecosystems, as well as the diversity of ways in which they influence ecosystem functioning through their effects on host populations and communities. Ecologists, epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and other scientists are increasingly coming to realise that parasites must be taken into account when studying ecosystems. Parasitism and...

Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C)

• ISBN:
• 0199290903
• Authors:
• Joseph E. Stiglitz, Andrew Charlton

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how globalization can actually help Third World countries to develop and prosper. In Fair Trade For All, Stiglitz and Charlton address one of the key issues facing world leaders today--how can the...

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author

• ISBN:
• 0199291152
• Authors:
• Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the study of social biology, and have forced thousands of readers to rethink their beliefs about life. In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, The Selfish Gene, Dawkins explains how...

The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison (National Bureau of Economic Research Comparative Labor Markets Series)

• ISBN:
• 0226470504

The distribution of income, the rate of pay raises, and the mobility of employees is crucial to understanding labor economics. Although research abounds on the distribution of wages across individuals in the economy, wage differentials within firms remain a mystery to economists. The first effort to examine linked employer-employee data across countries, The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison analyzes labor trends and their...

Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis (Historical Studies of Urban America)

• ISBN:
• 0226477010
• Authors:
• Robert Lewis

From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the...

Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

• ISBN:
• 0226534030
• Authors:
• Mark Monmonier

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence—chiefly economic, residential, and environmental—as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that...

The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor: Transmission Mechanisms (Studies in Development Economics and Policy)

• ISBN:
• 0230004792

While the economic opportunities offered by globalization can be large, a question is often raised as to whether the actual distribution of gains is fair, in particular, whether the poor benefit less than proportionately from globalization and could under some circumstances be hurt by it. This book examines the various channels and transmission mechanisms, such as greater openness to trade and foreign investment, economic growth, effects on...

The Garden of Ediacara

• ISBN:
• 0231105592
• Authors:
• Mark A. S. McMenamin

During an expedition in Sonora, Mexico, paleontologist Mark A. S. McMenamin unearthed fossils of creatures dated at approximately 600 million years old -making them the oldest large body fossils ever discovered. These circular fossils, known as Ediacarans, seemed to defy explanation. Representatives of marine life forms that existed in Precambrian times, as much as fifty million years before life on earth began to diversify rapidly, the...

Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan

• ISBN:
• 0262032856
• Authors:
• Thomas F. Cargill, Michael M. Hutchison, Takatoshi Ito

Japan's financial institutions and policy underwent remarkable change in the past decade. The country began the 1990s with a heavily regulated financial system managed by an unchallenged Ministry of Finance and ended the decade with a Big Bang financial market reform, a complete restructuring of its regulatory financial institutions, and an independent central bank. These reforms have taken place amid recession and rising unemployment,...

Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?

• ISBN:
• 0262033348
• Authors:
• Guillermo A. Calvo

Since the mid-1990s, emerging market economies have been hit by dramatic highs and lows: lifted by large capital inflows, then plunged into chaos by constrained credit and out-of-control exchange rates. The conventional wisdom about such crises is strongly influenced by the experience of advanced economies. In Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil , Guillermo Calvo examines these issues instead from the perspective of emerging market economies...

Strategies and Games: Theory and Practice

• ISBN:
• 0262041693
• Authors:
• Prajit K. Dutta

Game theory has become increasingly popular among undergraduate as well as business school students. This text is the first to provide both a complete theoretical treatment of the subject and a variety of real-world applications, primarily in economics, but also in business, political science, and the law. Strategies and Games grew out of Prajit Dutta's experience teaching a course in game theory over the last six years at Columbia University....

Touch (Bradford Books)

• ISBN:
• 026206216X
• Authors:
• Tiffany Field

The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy, well into childhood. Touch is critical for children’s growth, development, and health, as well as for adults’ physical and mental well-being. Yet American society, claims Tiffany Field, is dangerously touch-deprived. Field, a leading authority on touch and...

Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests (Lionel Robbins Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262072092
• Authors:
• Ralph E. Gomory, William J. Baumol

In this book Ralph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. Trade today is dominated by manufactured goods, rapidly moving technology, and huge firms that benefit from economies of scale. This is very different from the largely agricultural world in which the classical theories originated. Gomory and Baumol show that the new and significant conflicts resulting from international trade are inherent in...

Contracts in Trade and Transition: The Resurgence of Barter

• ISBN:
• 0262133997
• Authors:
• Dalia Marin, Monika Schnitzer

Difficulties in contract enforcement impede international transactions in the world economy and domestic transactions in transition economies. In Contracts in Trade and Transition , Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer explain how barter as an economic institution can facilitate contract enforcement across national borders in international trade and within borders in transition countries. The authors show that international countertrade--tying an...

Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen (Munich Lectures)

• ISBN:
• 0262195178
• Authors:
• Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, F. Halsey Rogers

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In Growth and Empowerment , Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and F. Halsey Rogers propose a new strategy for development. Drawing...

Globalization (Greenwood Guides to Business and Economics)

• ISBN:
• 031334213X
• Authors:
• Donald J. Boudreaux

The contemporary era of globalization demonstrates that the local and global aspects of business and government are increasingly intertwined. This volume defines and makes sense of the workings of the global economy—and how it influences businesses and individuals. Each chapter identifies common questions and issues that have gained exposure in the popular media—such as outsourcing, the high cost of international travel, and the impact of a...

Philosophical Darwinism: On the Origin of Knowledge by Means of Natural Selection

• ISBN:
• 0415086027
• Authors:
• Peter Munz

Philosophical Darwinism brings an entirely new perspective to contemporary debates. It has far-reaching implications for cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and questions attempts from the field of biology to reduce mental events to neural processes. Most importantly, it provides a rational postmodern alternative to what the author views as the unreasonable postmodern theories of Kuhn, Lyotard, and Rorty.

Contesting Globalization: Space and Place in the World Economy (Routledge/Ripestudies in Global Political Economy)

• ISBN:
• 0415319293
• Authors:
• Andr Drainville

This book is an innovative and original addition to the literature on globalization which examines the challenges faced by those wishing to develop progressive visions of transparent global governance and civil society. The author traces the history and development of the institutions of global governance (The World Bank, IMF, WTO etc) as well as the emergence of the anti-globalization movement. The author argues that we are at a unique moment...

International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

• ISBN:
• 0415770270
• Authors:
• D.m.p Mccarthy

International economic integration is perceived as one of the paramount forces shaping the modern world. Many organizations, both public and private, are trying to combine economic activities across international borders. The European Union and the North American Free Trade Area are two examples of government-managed international economic integration. Private organizations include various criminal groups as well as international churches....

International Business: Strategy and the Multinational Enterprise

• ISBN:
• 0415800579
• Authors:
• John B. Cullen, K. Praveen Parboteeah

This book covers the same material and more when compared with other international business texts, yet it is priced for the student’s pocketbook. A new international business text for a new and ever changing global environment. With a unique chapter covering International E-Commerce, Cullen is written in a unique way. Issues link the chapters. The logic is that to choose and implement strategies in international business, you need to...

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set, Volume 1-5

• ISBN:
• 0444520333

The groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Ecology provides an authoritative and comprehensive coverage of the complete field of ecology, from general to applied. It includes over 500 detailed entries, structured to provide the user with complete coverage of the core knowledge, accessed as intuitively as possible, and heavily cross-referenced. Written by an international team of leading experts, this revolutionary encyclopedia will serve as a...

India: Sustaining Reform, Reducing Poverty

• ISBN:
• 0195668308
• Authors:
• The World Bank

This World Bank report is an assessment of the policy reforms undertaken in India at various levels. It looks, in particular, at the impact the economic reforms, the country embarked upon in 1991, have had on the levels of poverty in India. Beginning with an overview of macroeconomics scenario in India, the report approaches the poverty outcome and the economic performance of the country in the aftermath of the reform process.

Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail

• ISBN:
• 0470283858
• Authors:
• Peter Marber

Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In Seeing the Elephant , author and emerging markets expert Peter Marber describes how increasing economic integration and the rise of new actors is drastically altering the geopolitical landscape, and offers insights on how the US can maintain a leading role in the 21st century...

Global Crises, Global Solutions

• ISBN:
• 0521606144

This volume provides a uniquely rich set of arguments and data for prioritizing our responses to some of the most serious problems facing the world today, such as climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts, education, financial instability, corruption, migration, malnutrition and hunger, trade barriers, and water access. Leading economists evaluate the evidence for costs and benefits of various programs to help gauge how we can achieve the...

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 0521777305

Charles Darwin remains the subject of continuing energetic debate in the fields of philosophy, history of science, biology and history of ideas. This volume offers a collection of newly commissioned essays from experts in their fields, and will provide a student readership with an accessible guide through Darwin's thought.

Managing Economic Volatility and Crises: A Practitioner's Guide

• ISBN:
• 0521855241

Over the past ten years, economic volatility has come into its own after being treated for decades as a secondary phenomenon in business cycle literature. This evolution has been driven by the recognition of the permanent negative effects of volatility on long-run growth and inequality, especially in poor countries. After presenting basic features of volatility, this volume investigates commodity price volatility as an absorber and amplifier of...

Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms

• ISBN:
• 0521871352
• Authors:
• Vernon L. Smith

The principal findings of experimental economics are that impersonal exchange in markets converges in repeated interaction to the equilibrium states implied by economic theory, under information conditions far weaker than specified in the theory. In personal, social, and economic exchange, as studied in two-person games, cooperation exceeds the prediction of traditional game theory. This book relates these two findings to field studies and...

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?

• ISBN:
• 0674005430
• Authors:
• Michael Ruse

With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries , an enlightening inquiry...

Game Theory for Applied Economists

• ISBN:
• 0691003955
• Authors:
• Robert Gibbons

This book introduces one of the most powerful tools of modern economics to a wide audience: those who will later construct or consume game-theoretic models. Robert Gibbons addresses scholars in applied fields within economics who want a serious and thorough discussion of game theory but who may have found other works overly abstract. Gibbons emphasizes the economic applications of the theory at least as much as the pure theory itself; formal...

India as an Emerging Power

• ISBN:
• 0714683213
• Authors:
• Sumit Ganguly

These essays examine India's relations with key powers including the Russian Federation, China and the USA and with key adversaries in the global arena in the aftermath of the Cold War. One positive relationship is that of India's relations with Israel since 1992.

Beyond Diversity Day: A Q&A on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Schools (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities)

• ISBN:
• 074252034X
• Authors:
• Arthur Lipkin

Beyond Diversity Day is a handbook for teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, parents, and students who want to understand and affirm sexuality differences; promote and protect the well-being of all students; and reduce bigotry, self-hatred, and violence. In question-and-answer format, Arthur Lipkin offers advice to nurture positive relationships among glbt youth, their families, and the schools; welcome glbt families in the school...

Networking with Millionaires... and Their Advisors

• ISBN:
• 0743507932
• Authors:
• Thomas Stanley

In The Millionaire Next Door, Tom Stanely identified the millionaires around you. In the Millionaire Mind, he told you how they think. Now, he tells you how to get their business. NETWORKING WITH MILLIONAIRES The affluent market segment is growing seven times faster than the household population in this country. Dollar for dollar the most productive way to penitrate the affluent market is to network with its members, their advisors, and the...

The Politics of Money: Towards Sustainability and Economic Democracy

• ISBN:
• 0745317200
• Authors:
• Frances Hutchinson, Mary Mellor, Wendy Olsen

On the whole, classical and radical economists have marginalised the role of money, most particularly the role of credit, in driving the machinery of accumulation and exclusion. Although critiques of capitalism from Marxist, feminist, ecological and many other perspectives abound, The Politics of Money is unique in gathering the strengths of these differing critiques into a coherent whole. The authors have drawn upon their varied expertise in...

Democracy and Regulation: How the Public can Govern Essential Services

• ISBN:
• 0745319432
• Authors:
• Greg Palast, Jerrold Oppenheim, Theo MacGregor

Essential services are being privatised the world over. Whether it's water, gas, electricity or the phone network, everywhere from Sao Paulo in Brazil to Leeds in the UK is following the US economic model and handing public services over to private companies whose principal interest is raising prices. Yet it's one of the world's best kept secrets that Americans pay astonishingly little for high quality public services. Uniquely in the world,...

Avoiding Responsibility: The Politics and Discourse of European Development Policy

• ISBN:
• 0745321909
• Authors:
• Nathalie Karagiannis

Post-colonial European politics have undergone a profound shift. Constructing an intellectual history of European development discourse, this book brings together post-structuralist and critical approaches to understanding development. Nathalie Karagiannis takes full advantage of the latest writings on political and social theory, showing how theory might be used in post-colonial and development studies; she also reveals some of the...

Babylon and Beyond: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist a

• ISBN:
• 0745323901
• Authors:
• Derek Wall

Babylon and Beyond  provides the first clear and accessible guide to the economics of anti-capitalism. Anti-capitalism is a diverse movement: critics accuse it of knowing what it is against, but not knowing what it is for. Anti-capitalists want radical change, but what shape should that change take? The truth is that different sections of the movement advocate distinct---sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory---programmes for change....

India And South Asia: Economic Developments in the Age of Globalization

• ISBN:
• 0765614529

South Asia has become a major center of attention on the world stage with the U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan since 9/11, the ongoing concern over Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan, and India's emergence as a regional economic power. In addition, the age-old problems of South Asia - mass poverty, poor infrastructure, misgovernance, rampant corruption, political uncertainty, and regional wars - add to the increased interest in the...

The Netherlands (Modern World Nations)

• ISBN:
• 0791074765
• Authors:
• James F. Marran

These information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture

Natural Selection (Science Foundations)

• ISBN:
• 0791097846
• Authors:
• J. Phil Gibson, Terri R. Gibson

In his groundbreaking book "Natural Selection", Charles Darwin explained his theory that evolution is driven by adaptation of species to their environmental surroundings. From the tiniest microbe to the largest whale, all organisms have changed over vast expanses of time due to the forces of natural selection. This new title in the "Science Foundations" series provides an overview of the processes and causes that drive natural selection and the...

Description of the HDM-III Model (World Bank)

• ISBN:
• 0801835917
• Authors:
• Professor Thawat Watanatada

Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality (Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology)

• ISBN:
• 0803229534
• Authors:
• Andrew P. Lyons, Harriet D. Lyons

Irregular Connections traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century to the present, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. Andrew P. and Harriet D. Lyons argue that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex, including debates about prostitution, homosexuality, divorce,...

The Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice: A Proven System for Becoming a Top Producer

• ISBN:
• 0814480527
• Authors:
• David J. Mullen Jr.

In The Million-Dollar Financial Services Practice , author David J. Mullen, Jr. reveals how to become a top-producing financial advisor using the method he has taught at Merrill Lynch and is famous for in the industry. This comprehensive book combines marketing, prospecting, sales, and time management techniques into a system that will help readers build a successful and lucrative practice. Mullen gives financial advisors all the tools and...

Evolution: The History of Life on Earth (Genetics & Evolution)

• ISBN:
• 0816066795
• Authors:
• Russ Hodge

The theory of evolution can be observed anywhere - from exotic tropical rain forests to our own backyards - and is based on three main principles: heredity, variation, and selection. In the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace sought to explain how these processes work together to produce new species. Evolution provided the first scientific system to investigate the origins and relationships of living creatures, and today it...

Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0816651140
• Authors:
• Annmarie Adams

In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.   At the center of this work is Montreal’s landmark Royal Victoria...

Advances in Mathematical Finance (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)

• ISBN:
• 0817645446

This self-contained volume brings together a collection of chapters by some of the most distinguished researchers and practitioners in the fields of mathematical finance and financial engineering. Presenting state-of-the-art developments in theory and practice, the Festschrift is dedicated to Dilip B. Madan on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It covers topics, including: Theory and application of the Variance-Gamma process; Levy process driven...

India and the WTO (World Bank Trade and Development Series)

• ISBN:
• 0821354108

This book is designed to clarify India's interests in the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda and to provide a blueprint for its strategy in multilateral negotiations. The focus is on facilitating domestic and external policy reforms that can serve to bolster India's participation in the multilateral trading system and to enhance the effectiveness of India's trade and related policies in achieving developmental goals. Individual...

Little Green Data Book 2004

• ISBN:
• 0821357344
• Authors:
• World Bank

In its 3rd annual edition, The Little Green Data Book 2004 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. Profiles of each country include 48 key development indicators like: Population, Urban Population, Rural Population Density; GNI, GDP, Gross National Savings;...

Development Challenges in the 1990s: Leading Policy Makers Speak from Experience

• ISBN:
• 0821358723

The 1990s were a decade of historical significance with numerous and remarkable changes. It was also a time of considerable reforms that strengthened the policy framework in a large number of countries. Yet the resulting growth experiences of developing countries have been extremely varied and often below expectations. What have we learned from this experience? And how can these lessons be applied to the challenges we face in the new millennium?...

Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis (Disaster Risk Management)

• ISBN:
• 0821359304
• Authors:
• Maxx Dilley, Robert S. Chen, Uwe Deichmann, Arthur L. Lerner-Lam, Margaret Arnold

Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus...

Power, Rights, and Poverty: Concepts and Connections

• ISBN:
• 0821363107

While the terms “power” and “rights” are increasingly incorporated into the language of development agencies they have yet to fully permeate the practice of poverty reduction. Acknowledging that this partly results from a lack of clarity over the concepts of power and rights and partly from questions of how to operationalize these ideas, the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development co-sponsored a series of short...

Sexuation: SIC 3 ([sic] Series)

• ISBN:
• 0822324377

Contemporary discourse seems to provide a choice in the way sexual identities and sexual difference are described and analyzed. On the one hand, much current thinking suggests that sexual identity is fluid--socially constructed and/or performatively enacted. This discourse is often invoked in the act of overcoming an earlier patriarchal era of fixed and naturalized identities. On the other hand, some modern discourses of sexual identity seem to...

Insect Symbiosis (Contemporary Topics in Entomology)

• ISBN:
• 0849312868

Insect Symbiosis is a collection of chapters written by world authorities on the microbes that can be called symbionts that are associated with insects and mites. Whether bacteria, fungi or spiroplasmids, and whether endosymbionts or casual gut symbionts, the authors describe some of the latest work in a field that has grown rapidly since the development of the newer molecular methods, which allowed for the identification of even minute samples...

Cancer Neurology in Clinical Practice

• ISBN:
• 0896039226

Univ. of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville. Text provides information on the latest findings in neuro-oncology helping to sharpen differential diagnoses, diagnostic strategies, and treatment plans. Features discussions on surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and other palliative measures. DNLM: Neoplasms--complications.

Who Pays for Bank Insolvency?

• ISBN:
• 140391740X

How to avoid taxpayers paying for bank failures and banking crises? This book provides a proposal and a critique by twelve independent experts. It is addressed particularly to the threat posed in Europe by having large international banks, a history of bailouts and limited means of resolving any future banking crises. It shows how political imperatives and legal constraints currently result in economic losses in many countries round the world.

India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Global Culture

• ISBN:
• 1403939438
• Authors:
• Anna Greenspan

India and the IT Revolution explores the contemporary emergence of cosmopolitan, high-tech India as marking the arrival of a truly global cyberculture. It argues against the notion that globalization is a process of "Westernization," which radiates out unilaterally from the core, imposing itself upon a passive, backward periphery. Instead, it conceives of global culture as a dynamic, innovative network, which proceeds primarily from its edges.

The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an (Blackwell Companions to Religion)

• ISBN:
• 1405117524

The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an is a reader’s guide, a true companion for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur’an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life. Comprises over 30 original essays by leading scholars Provides exceptionally broad coverage - considering the structure, content and rhetoric of the Qur’an; how Muslims have interpreted the text and how they interact with it; and the Qur’an’s place in Islam...

Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development (Blackwell Handbooks of Developmental Psychology)

• ISBN:
• 1405120738

The Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood Development presents a comprehensive summary of research into child development from age two to seven. Comprising 30 contributions from both established scholars and emerging leaders in the field, it addresses some of the most compelling questions about early experience, such as how important early brain development is, and whether parents matter.The volume covers the full range of research in...

The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change (Environmental Systems and Global Change Series)

• ISBN:
• 140512976X
• Authors:
• Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly

This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere – ice sheets, glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea ice and snow – in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscape transition which...

Language of the Earth: A Literary Anthology

• ISBN:
• 1405160675

Man’s complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets, philosophers, novelists, historians, and sociologists as well. A unique collection that bridges the gap between science and humanities Contains writings by scientists, artists,...

Guns, Germs and Steel

• ISBN:
• 1565115147
• Authors:
• Jared Diamond

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize In this groundbreaking work, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history’s broadest patterns. It is a story that spans 13,000 years of human history, beginning when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel is a world history that really is...

Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics

• ISBN:
• 157851777X
• Authors:
• Eric D. Beinhocker

Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker argues that modern science provides a radical perspective on these age-old questions, with far-reaching...

Prebiotic Evolution and Astrobiology

• ISBN:
• 1587063301

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Global Economics

• ISBN:
• 1592576605
• Authors:
• Craig Hovey, Gregory Rehmke

Think outside the borders. Global economics affects every aspect of our lives. Free trade agreements, tariffs, terrorism, trade deficits, international debt, global warming, OPEC, outsourcing, and sweat shops are just some of the forces driving our world, food supply, jobs, and future. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Global Economics provides the key to understanding the various facts, figures, policies, and practices that offer insight into...

1001 Sexcapades to Do If You Dare

• ISBN:
• 1598699032
• Authors:
• Bobbi Dempsey

An exciting sex life isn’t just for Playboys or Playboy bunnies anymore. With this book on your nightstand, you will be challenged to throw away your inhibitions, increase your pleasure, and keep boredom out of your bedroom for good! There’s plenty to keep the passion alive with new positions, new locations, and new twists on old favorites. You will be tempted to try all sorts of new sexual maneuvers and put yourself in different kinds of...

Germany's West Wall: The Siegfried Line (Fortress)

• ISBN:
• 184176678X
• Authors:
• Neil Short

The West Wall (or the Siegfried Line as the Allies called it) played a crucial role in the bitter fighting of 1944 and 1945 in North-West Europe. Constructed in the period immediately after the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in 1936, the Wall stretched for 300 miles from Cleve in the north to the Swiss Border and consisted of some 14,000 pillboxes. The Wall initially blunted the US attack, and Hitler used it as a foundation from which to...

Fortifications of the Western Front 1914-18 (Fortress)

• ISBN:
• 1841767603
• Authors:
• Paddy Griffith

Following the early battles of 1914 along the Marne and in the Ypres salient, World War I rapidly changed from a war of movement into one of attrition, with the opposing sides entrenching themselves in a line of fortified positions from the Flanders coastline to the Swiss border. This volume details the different styles of fortification used on the Western Front throughout the course of the war, from the early ditches of 1914 to the complicated...

Iraq and the War on Terror: Twelve Months of Insurgency 2004/2005

• ISBN:
• 1845112059
• Authors:
• Paul Rogers

Since the start of the Iraq conflict, world-renowned security expert Paul Rogers has produced a series of monthly reports scrutinizing developments in the occupation and the Iraqi response to it, drawing on the unique range of contacts and material available to the prestigious Oxford Research Group. Now, for the first time, Rogers has brought these reports together to provide a detailed and authoritative analysis of the last year in Iraq....

Small Country Innovation Systems: Globalization, Change and Policy in Asia and Europe

• ISBN:
• 1845425847

This major new book presents case studies of ten small country national systems of innovation (NSIs) in Europe and Asia, namely, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan. These cases have been carefully selected as examples of success within the context of globalization and as 'new economies' where competition is increasingly based on innovation. To facilitate comparative analysis...

Ageing and Development

• ISBN:
• 1848130538

This book is an authoritative analysis of the social and economic implications of global increased life expectancy.  Can we provide enough pensions for old people to live comfortably?  How can old people be empowered to play a more positive role in society?  What will the role of grandparents be in the emerging new social structures?  What are the implications for health services? How can the very old be cared for?  Providing a wealth of...

Currency and Competitiveness in Europe

• ISBN:
• 1848440359
• Authors:
• Josef Christl, Peter Mooslechner, Doris Ritzberger-Grunwald

This book raises the understanding of exchange rate dynamics and analyses the role of exchange rates in reinforcing economic competitiveness. The overall focus is on the link between currency developments and the real side of the economy. From a regional perspective, the contributions highlight developments in Central, Eastern and South-eastern Europe and thus put a special emphasis on aspects of transition and convergence. Combining...

Financial Markets and the Banking Sector: Roles and Responsibilities in a Global World (Financial History)

• ISBN:
• 1851966528

Based on both theoretical and empirical approaches, the essays in this volume emphasise the role of ethics in a globalized economy. Part I looks at the evolution of global finance and how efficiently, or otherwise, it works, while Part II focuses on the role of banking institutions. Using up-to-date research, the contributors focus on recent developments in the financial world. The current economic crisis is also taken into account, making this...

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Innovation: New Roles for Key Players

• ISBN:
• 1848442572

`The tasks confronting European governments intent on innovation will need to shift from simple quantitative measures of how much (R&D, etc.) to how good such magnitudes are in augmenting competitiveness - from quantity to quality. In this book the editors and their contributors move the debate on to concerns over the effectiveness of innovation. This is not just a matter of making linkages among increasingly diverse players, but of making these...

Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib

• ISBN:
• 0060195916
• Authors:
• Seymour M. Hersh

Since September 11, 2001, Seymour M. Hersh has riveted readers -- and outraged the Bush Administration -- with his stories in The New Yorker, including his breakthrough pieces on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Now, in Chain of Command, he brings together this reporting, along with new revelations, to answer the critical question of the last three years: how did America get from the clear morning when hijackers crashed airplanes into the World...

Summer World: A Season of Bounty

• ISBN:
• 0060742178
• Authors:
• Bernd Heinrich

The highly anticipated, intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in summer, from award-winning nature writer Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World.

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 43

• ISBN:
• 012026143X

Volume 43 is an eclectic volume with reviews on ecology and biogeography of marine parasites; fecundity: characteristics and role in life-history strategies of marine invertebrates; the ecology of Southern Ocean Pack-ice; and biological and remote sensing perspectives of pigmentation in coral reef organisms. Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler...

Tuna: Physiology, Ecology, and Evolution, Volume 19: Physiological Ecology and Evolution (Fish Physiology)

• ISBN:
• 0123504430

This book is a multidisciplinary volume that overviews the most recent literature covering the physiology, biomechanics, evolution, and ecology of tunas. It examines critical areas of molecular and organismal physiology, phylogeny, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Recently developed techniques for electronic tagging of fish are presented. The book covers all aspects of tuna biology, from metabolism and cardiovascular research to reproductive...

Ecosystem Engineers, Volume 4: Plants to Protists (Theoretical Ecology Series)

• ISBN:
• 0123738571

The first book entirely devoted to this topic, Ecosystem Engineers begins with the history of the concept, presenting opposing definitions of ecosystem engineeing. These varied definitions advance the debate and move past trivial difficulties to crystallize key issues such as the value of process-based vs. outcome-based. Authors include case studies spanning a wide spectrum of species and habitats, including above and below-ground, aquatic and...

Drosophila: A Guide to Species Identification and Use

• ISBN:
• 0124730523
• Authors:
• Therese A. Markow, Patrick O'Grady

Anyone wishing to tap the research potential of the hundreds of Drosophila species in addition to D.melanogaster will finally have a single comprehensive resource for identifying, rearing and using this diverse group of insects. This is the only group of higher eukaryotes for which the genomes of 12 species have been sequenced. The fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster continues to be one of the greatest sources of information regarding the...

Betting on America: Why the US Can Be Stronger After September 11

• ISBN:
• 0130460788
• Authors:
• James W. Cortada, Edward Wakin

Authors examine the long-term impact of 9-11 at every level, from our most private personal relationships to the choices we make as a society, as we seek to respond to new threats without compromising our most cherished values. Shows us how the lessons of history can help us act more wisely, more realistically, and with greater confidence.

Clonality: The Genetics, Ecology, and Evolution of Sexual Abstinence in Vertebrate Animals

• ISBN:
• 019536967X
• Authors:
• John Avise

Approximately 99.9% of vertebrate species reproduce sexually. The exceptional 0.1% reproduce via asexual or clonal means, which vary wildly and are fascinating in their own right. In this book, John C. Avise describes the genetics, ecology, natural history, and evolution of the world's approximately 100 species of vertebrate animal that routinely display one form or another of clonal or quasi-clonal reproduction. By considering the many facets...

Disease Ecology: Community Structure and Pathogen Dynamics

• ISBN:
• 0198567081

Disease Ecology highlights exciting advances in theoretical and empirical research towards understanding the importance of community structure in the emergence of infectious diseases. The chapters in this book illustrate aspects of community ecology that influence pathogen transmission rates and disease dynamics in a wide variety of study systems. The innovative studies presented here communicate a clear message: studies of epidemiology can be...

Game Theory: Introduction and Applications

• ISBN:
• 0198775024
• Authors:
• Graham Romp

Covering all the essential topics for undergraduate courses, this is the ideal student introduction to game theory. It sets out the basics of the subject in a non-technical way and uses illustrations and examples to show its application to realistic, topical, and interesting problems ranging from strategic decision-making within companies to international environmental policy-making. All explanation is clear, well structured, and entirely...

Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture

• ISBN:
• 0199205574
• Authors:
• Mike Hansell

From termite mounds and caterpillar cocoons to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times even rival our own feats of engineering. But how do creatures with such small brains build these complex structures? What drives them to do it? In this fascinating volume, Mike Hansell looks at the extraordinary structures that animals build--whether homes, traps, or...

The Biology of Polar Regions (Check Info and Delete This Occurrence: C Bohs T Biology of Habitats Series)

• ISBN:
• 0199298130
• Authors:
• G.E. Fogg, P. Convey, C.H. Fritsen, J.-M. Gili, R. Gradinger, J. Laybourn-Parry, K. Reid, D.W.H. Walton

There is now an increased awareness of the importance of polar regions in the Earth system, as well as their vulnerability to anthropogenic derived change, including of course global climate change. This new edition offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to polar ecology and has been thoroughly revised and updated throughout, providing expanded coverage of marine ecosystems and the impact of humans. It incorporates a detailed comparison...

The Quran in Its Historical Context

• ISBN:
• 0203939603

Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur’anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages of the Qur’an in an original manner, combining thorough philology, historical anthropology, and cultural history. This book addresses in a critical fashion the hottest issues in recent works...

Al-Ghazali and the Quran: One Book, Many Meanings

• ISBN:
• 0203964659
• Authors:
• Martin Whittingham

This book is the first of its kind to focus entirely on the Qur’anic interpretation of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058-1111), a towering figure of Sunni Islam. Martin Whittingham explores both al-Ghazali’s hermeneutical methods and his interpretations of particular Quranic texts, and covers al-Ghazali’s mystical, legal and theological concerns. Divided into two parts: part one examines al-Ghazali’s legal and Sufi theoretical discussions part...

The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy

• ISBN:
• 0230002463
• Authors:
• Stephen Boulter

This book is a defence of the philosophy of common sense broadly in the spirit of Thomas Reid and G.E. Moore. It breaks new ground by drawing on the work of Aristotle, contemporary evolutionary biology and psychology, and historical studies on the origins of early modern philosophy. Part One offers new answers to the questions: What counts as a common sense belief? Why should common sense beliefs be considered default positions?, and Why is it...

China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia

• ISBN:
• 0231141882
• Authors:
• David C. Kang

Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have flocked to invest in China, and Chinese exports have begun to flood the world. China is modernizing its military,...

Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses

• ISBN:
• 0631235744

Archaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses offers students in archaeology laboratory courses a detailed and invaluable how-to manual of archaeological methods and provides insight into the breadth of modern archaeology. Written by specialists of material analyses, whose expertise represents a broad geographic range Includes numerous examples of applications of archaeological techniques Organized by material types, such...

Invertebrate Palaeontology & Evolution

• ISBN:
• 0632052384
• Authors:
• Euan Clarkson, Euan, N.K. Clarkson

Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution is well established as the foremost palaeontology text at the undergraduate level. This fully revised fourth edition includes a complete update of the sections on evolution and the fossil record, and the evolution of the early metazoans. New work on the classification of the major phyla (in particular brachiopods and molluscs) has been incorporated. The section on trace fossils is extensively rewritten....

Why Sex Matters: A Darwinian Look at Human Behavior.

• ISBN:
• 0691089752
• Authors:
• Bobbi S. Low

Why are men, like other primate males, usually the aggressors and risk takers? Why do women typically have fewer sexual partners? Why is killing infants routine in some cultures, but forbidden in others? Why is incest everywhere taboo? Bobbi Low ranges from ancient Rome to modern America, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and from single-celled organisms to international politics to show that these and many other questions about human behavior...

Research for Development: A Practical Guide

• ISBN:
• 0761973265
• Authors:
• Sophie Laws

Guide provides an introduction to undertaking and managing research for development, internationally and locally. Divided into two parts: managing research for development, and doing research for development. For anyone engaged in contemporary development research, development work, and development studies. Hardcover, softcover available.

It's Not You, It's Biology.: The Science of Love, Sex, and Relationships

• ISBN:
• 076243256X
• Authors:
• Joe Quirk

At last, here’s what you should’ve learned in high school biology! This paperback edition is an Everyman’s humorous look at the real differences—biological, historical, psychological—between men and women…with fun and provocative insight into what really drives behavior and interactions between men and women. Men talk about women to men. Women talk about men to women. Men and women talk to each other (or try to) about relationships....

Frommer's Amsterdam Day by Day (Frommer's Day by Day)

• ISBN:
• 0764598945
• Authors:
• Haas Mroue

These attractively priced, four-color guides offer dozens of neighborhood and thematic tours, complete with hundreds of photos and bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Day by Days are the only guides that help travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. • Full-color package at an affordable price • Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions • Foldout front covers with maps and quick-reference...

Charlemagne (Ancient World Leaders)

• ISBN:
• 079107224X
• Authors:
• Dale Evva Gelfand

Traces the life of the Frankish warrior and king who built a great empire in western Europe.

Onto-Ethologies: The Animal Environments of Uexkull, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze (Suny Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics)

• ISBN:
• 0791476111
• Authors:
• Brett Buchanan

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.

Climate Change and Carbon Markets: A Handbook of Emissions Reduction Mechanisms

• ISBN:
• 1844071634

* Thorough, authoritative explanation of the instruments involved in the carbon trading market being launched through the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the Kyoto Protocol and other mechanisms * The market for carbon and greenhouse gas permits will be huge --potentially as large as the fossil fuel, (oil, gas and coal] markets it aims to counteract * Essential practical guide and reference for those involved in the market and its development, from...

Insects and Human Life

• ISBN:
• 1859738478
• Authors:
• Brian Morris

What is the cultural importance of insects? Why do we spend a good deal of time and money in the West trying to exterminate insects? How are human-insect relations far more subtle in other societies? From bathtub-invaders to protein-source, insects play a multi-faceted role that has not previously been recognized. To investigate this fully, Brian Morris spent years in Malawi. Here, as in many tropical regions, insects have a profound impact on...

Molecular Microbial Ecology (Advancedmethods)

• ISBN:
• 1859962831
• Authors:
• A. M. Osborn

Microoganisms are distributed across every ecosystem, and microbial transformations are fundamental to the operation of the biosphere. Microbial ecology is the study of this interaction between microorganisms and their environment, and arguably represents one of the most important areas of biological research. Yet for many years our study of microbial flora was severely limited: the primary method of culturing microorganisms on media allowed us...

China Business Etiquette and Culture

• ISBN:
• 1886420556
• Authors:
• Kevin Barry Bucknall

In this book, you will be introduced to the basics of Chinese culture. You will discover how to initiate contact, what to expect in meetings, and how to behave there. You will learn the way the Chinese approach negotiations, discover how you can respond to them, and learn how to negotiate a successful conclusion. You will also find out how to socialize for success, how to cope with specific problems of living and working in China, and the best...

Doing Business with Saudi Arabia (Global Market Briefings)

• ISBN:
• 1905050062

This third edition of Doing Business with Saudi Arabia is the definitive English language guide to business practice and commercial opportunity in the Kingdom, the largest economy in the Middle East. This authoritative guide provides an up-to-date appraisal of the current economic and investment climate, a review of market potential in the key sectors, and unique 'best practice' advice on all aspects of commercial engagement with Saudi Arabia....

The New Mum's Guide to Sex: Rediscover Passion After Childbirth

• ISBN:
• 1905745133
• Authors:
• Rachel Foux

New moms learn to balance the roles of mother and lover and keep their sexual flame alive in this honest but warm guide to sex after childbirth. A variety of medical, emotional, and practical facts lead new moms through the veils of vulnerability, poor body image, and internalized frustration to rediscover their sexual identity. Each chapter is full of case studies from both moms and dads, as well as girl tips, lover tips, and play suggestions...

International Economic Policy Coordination

• ISBN:
• 354024445X
• Authors:
• Michael Carlberg

This book studies the international coordination of monetary and fiscal policies in the world economy. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on monetary and fiscal competition between Europe and America. Similarly, as to policy cooperation, the focus is on monetary and fiscal cooperation between Europe and America. The spillover effects of monetary...

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics)

• ISBN:
• 3540262857
• Authors:
• Johannes Voit

This highly praised introductory treatment describes the parallels between statistical physics and finance - both those established in the 100-year long interaction between these disciplines, as well as new research results on financial markets. The random-walk technique, well known in physics, is also the basic model in finance, upon which are built, for example, the Black-Scholes theory of option pricing and hedging, plus methods of portfolio...

Index and Stability in Bimatrix Games: A Geometric-Combinatorial Approach (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

• ISBN:
• 3540263667
• Authors:
• H. Arndt von Schemde

The index of an equilibrium in a game gives information about the "stability" of the equilibrium, for example with respect to game dynamics. Unfortunately, index theory is often very technical. This book presents a new geometric construction that visualises the index in an intuitive way. For example, a 3×n game, for any n, can be represented by a figure in the plane, from which one can read off any equilibrium, and its index as a geometric...

Standardization and Expectations (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems)

• ISBN:
• 3540281126
• Authors:
• Tobias Langenberg

Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are key to the problem of whether a new technology will prevail as de-facto standard or not. Early adopters must be confident that the network good will be...

Ecological Informatics: Scope, Techniques and Applications

• ISBN:
• 3540283838

Ecological Informatics promotes interdisciplinary research between ecology and computer science on elucidation of principles of information processing in ecosystems, ecological sustainability by informed decision making, and bio-inspired computation. The 2nd edition of the book consolidates the scope, concepts, and techniques of this newly emerging discipline by a new preface and additional chapters on cellular automata, qualitative reasoning,...

Handbook on Optimal Growth 1: Discrete Time (V. 1)

• ISBN:
• 3540323082

The problem of efficient or optimal allocation of resources is a fundamental concern of economic analysis. The theory of optimal economic growth can be viewed as an aspect of this central theme, which emphasizes in general the issues arising in the allocation of resources over an infinite time horizon, and in particular the consumption-investment decision process in models in which there is no natural "terminal date". This broad scope of...

Paleoclimate, Global Change and the Future

• ISBN:
• 3540424024

This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences for human populations. The book stands as a ten year milestone in the operation of the Past Global Changes (PAGES) Project of the International...

Intelligent Life in the Universe: Principles and Requirements Behind Its Emergence (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)

• ISBN:
• 3540439889
• Authors:
• P. Ulmschneider

This book addresses all science readers interested in the origins, development, and fate of intelligent species in the observable part of our universe. In particular, the author scrutinizes what kind of information about extraterrestrial intelligent life can be inferred from our own biological, cultural and scientific evolution. The first part of the book provides the necessary background information from space and life sciences, thus making the...

Genetics, Evolution and Biological Control

• ISBN:
• 085199735X

Developed from the keynote addresses delivered at the third IOBC International Symposium (co-organized with CILBA) held in Montpellier in October 2002, this book follows the themes of: genetic structure of pest and natural enemy populations, molecular diagnostic tools in biological control, tracing the origin of pests and natural enemies, predicting evolutionary change in pests and natural enemies, compatibility of transgenic crops and natural...

A Period of Time: A Study and Translation of Hadith 'isa Ibn Hisham by Muhammad Al-muwaylihi (St. Antony's Middle East Monographs)

• ISBN:
• 0863721656
• Authors:
• Roger Allan

Human Evolutionary Biology: Human Anatomy and Physiology from an Evolutionary Perspective

• ISBN:
• 0961580828
• Authors:
• Arndt Von Hippel

In his inimitably upbeat and irreverent style, Dr. Arndt von Hippel demonstrates how the latest scientific findings confirm a tortuous progression of events from the universal Big Bang to you. This book is * timely - there are no others * up-to-date - includes recent discoveries * complete - it provides an essential overview as well as a detailed explanation of human body systems * exciting - because it presents a great deal of information in a...

Summer World: A Season of Bounty

• ISBN:
• 1400111757
• Authors:
• Bernd Heinrich

The highly anticipated, intimate, accessible, and eloquent illumination of animal survival in summer, from award-winning nature writer Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World.

The Origins of Larvae

• ISBN:
• 1402015143
• Authors:
• D. Williamson

Many biological facts are irreconcilable with the assumption that larvae and adults evolved from the same genetic stock. The author of this book draws attention to these, and presents his alternative hypothesis that larvae have been transferred from one taxon to another. In his previous book (Larvae and Evolution, 1992), the author used larval transfer to explain developmental anomalies in eight animal phyla. In the present book, he claims that...

Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital

• ISBN:
• 1842774786
• Authors:
• Ulrich Duchrow, Franz J. Hinkelammert

The issue of private property and the rights it confers remain almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. The authors describe the historically specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. They trace this history from earliest historical times and show how, in the hands of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in...

The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap

• ISBN:
• 1885261055
• Authors:
• Peter Russell

Spanning from the Big Bang to the Information Age and beyond goes back to the beginning of time to take the reader on a flowing fascinating journey to our current world and our possible future. Extracting from the realities of today's unprecedented technological growth, ecological imbalance, political strife and emerging social-awareness author Peter Russell supposes that we are on the verge of a major planetary transformation-which in all of...

Paris-Princeton Lectures on Mathematical Finance 2002 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

• ISBN:
• 3540401938
• Authors:
• Peter Bank, Fabrice Baudoin, Hans Föllmer, L.C.G. Rogers, Halil Mete Soner, Nizar Touzi

The Paris-Princeton Lectures in Financial Mathematics, of which this is the first volume, will, on an annual basis, publish cutting-edge research in self-contained, expository articles from outstanding - established or upcoming! - specialists. The aim is to produce a series of articles that can serve as an introductory reference for research in the field. It arises as a result of frequent exchanges between the finance and financial mathematics...

OECD Statistics on International Trade in Services 2008, Volume II, Detailed Tables by Partner Country

• ISBN:
• 9264059032
• Authors:
• OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This OECD publication provides statistics on international trade in services by partner country for 28 OECD countries plus the European Union (EU25 and EU27), the Euro area, and Hong Kong (SAR China) as well as definitions and methodological notes. The data concern trade between residents and non-residents of countries and are reported within the framework of the Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services. This book includes summary...

Survival of the Fattest: The Key to Human Brain Evolution

• ISBN:
• 9812561919
• Authors:
• Stephen C. Cunnane

How did humans evolve larger and more sophisticated brains? In general, evolution depends on a special combination of circumstances: part genetics, part time, and part environment. In the case of human brain evolution, the main environmental influence was adaptation to a ‘shore-based’ diet, which provided the world’s richest source of nutrition, as well as a sedentary lifestyle that promoted fat deposition. Such a diet included shellfish,...

The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference (EVOLANG6), rome, Italy, 12-15 April 2006

• ISBN:
• 9812566562

The Universal Paradigm and Islamic World Systems: Economy, Society, Ethics and Science

• ISBN:
• 9812704604
• Authors:
• Masudul Alam Choudhury

Written by a contemporary pioneer in the area of the universal paradigm and Islamic world-systems, this book offers a fresh post-modernist outlook on new epistemological investigations in the universal paradigm. It addresses the problems of the unity of knowledge in learning systems, thereby invoking the foundations of Islamic epistemology. The author presents a phenomenological model of unity of knowledge in economics, ethics, science and...

Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 26

• ISBN:
• 012013926X

This volume contains papers highlighting the diverse interests of modern ecologists. All areas of ecology are covered: from the current concerns over changes in CO2 levels and its affects on the Earth's vegetation to the unique Cichlid fish populations in Lake Tanganika, whose structure is important for other organismal populations, including humans. Other theoretical and applied ecological studies are also discussed, making this volume...

Modeling for All Scales: An Introduction to System Simulation

• ISBN:
• 0125241704
• Authors:
• Howard T. Odum, Elisabeth C. Odum

All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems. These sorts of models are usually based upon a mathematical foundation that can be difficult to manipulate especially for students. Modeling for All Scales uses object-oriented programming to erect and evaluate the efficacy of models of small, intermediate and large scale systems. Such models allow users to employ...

Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies

• ISBN:
• 019513155X

Evolutionary Ecology simultaneously unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary ecology and provides a volume that can be used as either a primary textbook or a supplemental reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. The focus of the book is on current concepts in evolutionary ecology, and the empirical study of these concepts. The editors have assembled a group of prominent biologists who have made significant...

Strategic Interaction and Markets

• ISBN:
• 0198233418
• Authors:
• Jean J. Gabszewicz

Imperfect competition is the paradigm that develops as soon as economic agents interact in a conscious manner, which is the rule when competition takes place amongst a restricted number of agents. This book explores the theoretical richness of these economic contexts, using some basic tools of game theory. Designed as an ancillary text for graduate students, it summarizes the historic contributions made by economic theorists and makes accessible...

The Molecular Organography of Plants (Oxford Biology)

• ISBN:
• 0199550360
• Authors:
• Quentin Cronk

From the cells of aquatic algae to the majestic redwoods towering 100 metres above the California coast, the history of plant evolution has been one of increasing complexity. The underlying rationale for this book is to answer the question: How, when land plant embryos at a few-celled stage are essentially comparable, do plants achieve such radically different adult phenotypes, from mosses to tree-ferns, and grasses to oak trees? The Molecular...

Globalisation and Labour MarketAdjustment

• ISBN:
• 0230004938

This book explores theoretical developments of trade models, examining labour mobility, unemployment and training in models of international trade, as well as migration and labour markets, the wage and unemployment impacts of adjustment, adjustment and occupational mobility, exchange rate fluctuations and trade exposure, fragmentation and the labour market.

Multinational Firms and the Theory of International Trade

• ISBN:
• 0262633078
• Authors:
• James R. Markusen

Despite the great importance of multinational firms in international economics, theoretical and empirical research on these firms has generally been conducted separately from that on international trade. In this book, James Markusen provides a comprehensive integration of the two fields. Drawing on twenty years of research, he focuses on the interaction of scale economies, trade costs, factor endowments, and imperfect competition. He analyzes...

International Economics

• ISBN:
• 0273655078
• Authors:
• Barbara Ingham

The book is aimed at undergraduate students taking Level 2 or Level 3 courses in international economics. As well as students specialising in economics, the book is likely to be of interest to students on business studies, management, and social science programmes. Massive changes took place in the world economy in the last quarter of the twentieth century and the speed with which markets in goods, services, and finance were liberalised has no...

Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0333921585

The financial crisis that hit a number of economies of Asia in 1997 shocked the world. Financial Liberalization and the Asian Crisis rejects conventional explanations of the crisis as the outcome primarily of inefficient and corrupt economic systems in the countries concerned. It argues that the crisis was the result of premature and overly rapid financial liberalization in a world of increasing liquidity and volatility, and calls for a more...

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

• ISBN:
• 0470287160
• Authors:
• Pietra Rivoli

The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy has been lauded by the New York Times, Financial Times, and reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages, Travels has received numerous awards for its frank and nuanced discussion of global economic realities.  Now updated and revised--including a discussions of environmental issue--this fascinating book illustrates crucial lessons in the debate on globalization. The major themes and...

Trade, Exchange Rate, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

• ISBN:
• 0521865360
• Authors:
• Jean-Paul Azam

In this sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the open economies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Jean-Paul Azam analyses international trade, exchange rate issues, and longer-term growth, taking due account of the distinctive features of African economies. In particular, he examines the informal as well as the formal institutional frameworks which prevail in different African countries and which affect their macroeconomic behaviour. Key issues...

European Financial Markets and Institutions

• ISBN:
• 0521882990
• Authors:
• Jakob de de Haan, Sander Oosterloo, Dirk Schoenmaker

Written for undergraduate and graduate students of finance, economics and business, this textbook provides a fresh analysis of the European financial system. Combining theory, empirical data and policy, it examines and explains financial markets, financial infrastructures, financial institutions, and challenges in the domain of financial supervision and competition policy. Key features: • Designed specifically for courses on European financial...

The Handbook of Fish Biology and Fisheries Volume 1

• ISBN:
• 0632054123

Recent decades have witnessed strong declines in fish stocks around the globe, amid growing concerns about the impact of fisheries on marine and freshwater biodiversity. Fisheries biologists and managers are therefore increasingly asking about aspects of ecology, behavior, evolution and biodiversity that were traditionally studied by people working in very separate fields. This has highlighted the need to work more closely together, in order to...