Barry: 2877 books
by Dylan Barry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Zen Master: A Complete Guide of Zen Buddhism to Achieve Happiness and Peacefulness in Life
Zen buddhism draws a lot from the basic principles of Buddhist philosophy and thought. The ideas of the eightfold path, the skandhas, the four noble truths and the dharma seals are a crucial part of Zen...
by Barry Hymer, Mike Gershon
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
People with fixed mindsets believe that fundamental qualities like intelligence are essentially stable; people with growth mindsets believe that such qualities can be developed and nurtured. Research shows that learners with growth mindsets are more: open to challenges and constructively critical...
Service Management
An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Tie customer-driven strategies to service operations and process management, and sharpen your focus on creating customer value throughout your entire service organization! This comprehensive, multidisciplinary reference thoroughly covers today's most effective theories and methods for managing service...
Town Born
The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice,...
The Chinese Economy
Adaptation and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.
This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not...
by Barry G. Rabe
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A political science analysis of the feasibility and sustainability of carbon pricing, drawing from North American, European, and Asian case studies.
Climate change, economists generally agree, is best addressed by putting a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels—by taxing carbon, by...
Strategic Environmental Assessment
A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends...
by Barry Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
This is the story of Istanbul--but also of Turkey, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean--during World War II, based on extensive interviews and the use of archives, especially those of the OSS, which I was the first to see for this region. The book is written as a cross between a scholarly work...
by Brian Barry
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between "ideal-regarding" and "want-regarding"...
by Daniel Friedman, Barry Sinervo
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Over the last 25 years, evolutionary game theory has grown with theoretical contributions from the disciplines of mathematics, economics, computer science and biology. It is now ripe for applications. In this book, Daniel Friedman---an economist trained in mathematics---and Barry Sinervo---a biologist...
by Barry R. James
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
James Investment Research, Inc. prides itself on following seven guiding principles that inspire clients, students, and television and radio audiences to take a disciplined approach to investing. In the 7 Timeless Principles of Investing, youll learn how the principles may improve your chance of making...
Competing in Tough Times
Business Lessons from L.L.Bean, Trader Joe's, Costco, and Other World-Class Retailers
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Competing in Tough Times brings together the powerful new strategies that world-class retailers, like Trader Joe’s, Costco, and Nordstrom, are using today to survive--and thrive--in a brutally unforgiving retail environment. Internationally respected retail management expert Barry Berman shows retailers...
Rethinking the New Deal Court
The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 1998
Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution challenges the prevailing account of the Supreme Court of the New Deal era, which holds that in the spring of 1937 the Court suddenly abandoned jurisprudential positions it had staked out in such areas as substantive due process...
Imagining Numbers
(particularly the square root of minus fifteen)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
How the elusive imaginary number was first imagined, and how to imagine it yourself
Imagining Numbers (particularly the square root of minus fifteen) is Barry Mazur's invitation to those who take delight in the imaginative work of reading poetry, but may have no background in math, to make...