Benjamin: 3278 books
Lobbying America
The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2013
Lobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented...
Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One
A Fragmentary Exposition of Philosophical Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Replica of 1897 edition by Benj. R. Tucker, New York. This is a self-published collection of Tucker’s writings from the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism,...
Renewable Electricity Generation
Economic Analysis and Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This volume examines the outlook for renewable energy in electricity generation-particularly wind and solar power-as a substitute for conventional fuels such as coal and natural gas. Economist Benjamin Zycher evaluates the central arguments in favor of policies that would make way for broader use...
Organizational Climate and Culture
An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The fields of organizational climate and organizational culture have co-existed for several decades with very little integration between the two. In Organizational Climate and Culture: An Introduction to Theory, Research, and Practice, Mark G. Ehrhart, Benjamin Schneider, and William H. Macey break...
by Gerald Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
New York remains the Empire State. Its trillion dollar economy makes the state a national-and often world-leader in banking, finance, publishing, soft services (law, accounting, insurance, consulting), higher education, culture, and the arts. With more than one in five of its residents having immigrated...
The Rival
Play the Game, Own the Hustle, Power in Competition, Longevity in Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Benjamin Von Seeger, an Axiom Business Book Award winner author and telecommunications industry veteran, defies the conventional logic of global business how-to guides with this fresh, enlightening, and provocative perspective on todays global business landscape.
He delivers hard-hitting and...
by Benjamin L. Stewart, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book contains a variety of essays on how to conduct effective searches using search engines and institutional databases.
by Benjamin Black
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Una de las primeras cosas que el joven inspector Strafford detecta al empezar a investigar la muerte del reverendo Lawless es el carácter novelesco, como de obra de Agatha Christie, del escenario y los personajes que tiene ante él: el cadáver hallado en la biblioteca de la mansión de los Osborne,...
Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise
Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for disadvantaged...
Cool Cities
Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability. In this book,...
by Amy J. L. Baker, Benjamin Charvat
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Social service agencies are facing the same expectations in quality management and outcomes as private companies, compelling staff members and researchers to provide and interpret valid and useful research to stakeholders at all levels in the field. Child welfare agencies are particularly scrutinized....
by Benjamin L. Stewart, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
An assortment of essays on education, assessment, portfolios, curriculum, and must more!
The Stack
On Software and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.
What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It...
by Edward LiPuma, Benjamin Lee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990...