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Author: Caroline G. Nicholl

Caroline Nicholl tweets, "Leadership matters but...teamwork...defines true success." She should know. In a career spanning two decades and two continents, she has made her mark in law enforcement and in translating the l ...

Author: Rajesh Setty

140 Characters.

You can't say a lot in 140 characters. Or, that's what we thought until Twitter came along. Twitter set a new standard to communicate in 140 characters. Brevity is the name of the game. It is timely i ...

Author: Taylor Derek

Over the centuries, arguments have raged over whether or not Britain should be welcoming toward immigrants. This is a book about a tiny proportion of the immigrants to whom Britain did grant asylum, refuge, and liberty. ...

Author: Charles Francis Adams II

Charles Francis Adams II was born May 27, 1835, the son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86), and through him the grandson of President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and the great-grandson of President John Adams (1735-182 ...

Author: England

This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the or ...

Author: Guillaume De La Perriere

This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the or ...

Author: Barbara Czarniawska

This title examines the effects of globalization at the local level within our everyday lives. Rather than seeing the city as a conurbation, a location of economic activity, or in terms of governance and administration, ...

Author: Barbara Czarniawska

Cities are complex, sprawling, diverse places. They are organized, but disorganized; managed, but unmanaged; orderly, but disorderly. Modern metropolitan cities reproduce themselves and we are familiar with the common ic ...

Author: Kallidaikurichi Seetharam & Divya Sunder Ramchand

Some analysts looked at the 1997/98 East Asian crisis not as one crisis but as a combination of crises, beginning with a crisis of confidence and evolving into a currency crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a ...

Author: Michael K. Levine

There are many books that seek to explain Lean and Agile software that offer theory, techniques, and examples. Michael Levine's first book, A Tale of Two Systems, is one of the best, synthesizing Lean manufacturing and p ...

Author: Michael J. A. Howe

This is the second edition of a highly successful book which presents a short, down-to-earth account of how children learn and of the kinds of knowledge and skills they acquire at school. Though it does not show teachers ...

Author: James Webb Young

This title offers a step-by-step technique for sparking breakthrough creativity in advertising - or any field. Since its publication in 1965, "A Technique for Producing Ideas" has helped thousands of advertising copywrit ...

Author: Naomi Vernon

This book is easy to read and thought provoking. It reveals some common practices and impractical result-oriented tactics. Many book reviewers stated anyone of any age interested in conducting a successful job search wou ...

Author: Laurence H. Meyer

As a governor of the Federal Reserve Board from 1996 to 2002, Laurence H. Meyer helped make the economic policies that steered the United States through some of the wildest and most tumultuous times in its recent hist ...

Author: William E. Arnould-Taylor

This popular introduction to human anatomy and physiology describes and explains the eight body systems, histology, and the accessory organs. This book will prove invaluable for anyone requiring an understanding of the ...

Author: Ruth Towse

What determines the price of a pop concert or an opera? Why does Hollywood dominate the film industry? Does illegal downloading damage the record industry? Does free entry to museums bring in more visitors? In A Textbook ...

Author: Chaoyu Zheng

Author: John G. Cross

This book develops dynamic economic models using the perspective and analytic framework provided by psychological learning theory. This framework is used to resolve apparent contradictions between optimization theory, wh ...

Author: Michel Aglietta

Aglietta's path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil War to the Carter presidency. A major document of the Regulation School of Marx ...

Author: Itzhak Gilboa & David Schmeidler

Gilboa and Schmeidler provide a paradigm for modelling decision making under uncertainty. Unlike the classical theory of expected utility maximization, case-based decision theory does not assume that decision makers know ...