Angus: 416 books

Taps interest in environmental issues following wide spread disappointment stemming from the recent string of Global Climate Change summits Written in accessible language by experts on the science and social content of the topic Interest in the subject has been spurred by Al Gore's An...

No More Headaches, Hypertension, or Heartburn If your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It will show every company owner and project manager-at businesses large and small-how to run projects differently. You’ll benefit if you’ve ever: • been over budget on a project •...

This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the...

The Harvard Business Review Project Management Collection is for anyone serious about project management. Project Management for Profit shows every company owner and project manager-at businesses large and small-how to run projects differently. Reinventing Project Management, based on an unprecedented...

Just as economists struggle today to justify the free market after the global economic crisis, an earlier generation revisited their worldview after the Great Depression. In this intellectual history of that project, Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider the most basic assumptions of a market-centered world.

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

In recent years there has been a great deal of discussion about the social economy and the term 'the third way' has attained a level of household recognition, especially in America and Britain. Academics and commentators have debated the usefulness of the social economy as a restraint on capitalist excesses with some arguing that the 'third way' is

This book describes the evolution and development of the Division's research throughout the years and the ways in which scientists responded to the needs of the community. Winds of Change also presents a very human face of science, chronicling the personalities, and the highs and lows of scientific research.

Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications...

Hong Kong stock market is one of the biggest stock market in the world. Coupled with a Shanghai Stock connect it is offers a huge opportunity to investors. This ebook is aimed at investors to take full advantage of the special position that Hang Seng Index has in the world markets.This ebook...

'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.' Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber from tree...

The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. The first half-dozen dreadnoughts were all improvements of the basic Dreadnought design, all carrying ten 12-inch guns. It was only in 1911, with the launch of HMS Neptune that the layout of this powerful armament was altered...

Lt. Colonel Jon Frasier, Delta Force, squadron commander is due career wise in the Army for a staff assignment and is sent to an advanced secret base as the project manager for the DARPA Army Warfighter Individual Soldier Body Armor Program. In this new world Jon almost immediately runs into...

**“A gripping, globe-hopping saga of the struggle to outrun an unconquerable pandemic” from beyond planet Earth by the author of Misery Bay (**Neal Burdick, author of Adirondack Reflections). When a two-thousand-year-old mummy is unearthed in central China, investigators from around the...